For my final project in Advanced Audio Production at NYU, I created a 5.1 surround remix of the Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun.” You can download it here. If you don’t have surround playback, you can listen to the stereo version: I was motivated to create a surround remix of a Beatles song by hearing [...]
Also filed in Composition, Copyright and Authorship, Music, Software
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Tagged ableton, beatles, danger mouse, dreaming, electronica, film theory, mixing, Music, nyu, paul geluso, pro tools, Recording, remixes, rock, surround sound, synths
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Susan McClary “Rap, Minimalism and Structures of Time in Late Twentieth-Century Culture.” in Audio Culture, Daniel Warner, ed, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004, pp 289 – 298. This is essay is the best piece of music writing I’ve read in quite a while. She articulates my personal ideology of music perfectly. Also, she quotes Prince! [...]
Also filed in Composition, Emotion, Improvisation, Music, Music Theory, Race and Identity
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Tagged america, classical, Composition, hip-hop, history, Improvisation, prince, race, Recording, repetition, schoenberg, susan mcclary, technomusicology, theodor adorno
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Matthew D. Thibeault. Wisdom for Music Education From the Recording Studio. General Music Today, 20 October 2011. Stuart Wise, Janinka Greenwood and Niki Davis. Teachers’ Use of Digital Technology in Secondary Music Education: Illustrations of Changing Classrooms. British Journal of Music Education, Volume 28, Issue 2, July 2011, pp 117 - 134. Digital recording studios [...]
Also filed in Composition, Music, Music Teaching, Software
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Tagged brian eno, Composition, education, Improvisation, Music, music notation, music teaching, nyu, psychology, Recording, Sampling, school, teaching, technomusicology
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
For Paul Geluso’s Advanced Audio Production midterm, we were assigned to choose two tracks from his recommended listening list, and compare and contrast them sonically. I chose “Regiment” by David Byrne and Brian Eno, and “Little Fluffy Clouds” by The Orb. Recorded ten years apart using very different technology, both tracks nevertheless share a similar [...]
Also filed in Copyright and Authorship, Key Musicians, Music, Sampling
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Tagged brian eno, dance, david byrne, digging the crates, eighties, electronica, funk, mixing, Music, nineties, nyu, paul geluso, production, Recording, Sampling, synths, the orb
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The most fun Music Technology class I’m taking this semester is Advanced Audio Production with Paul Geluso. A major component of the class is learning how to listen analytically, and to that end, we were assigned to pick a song and do an exhaustive study of its sonic qualities. We used methods from William Moylan’s [...]
Also filed in Composition, Music
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Tagged ableton, analysis, attention, big boi, funk, hip-hop, janelle monae, melodyne, michael jackson, Music Theory, nyu, omnigraffle, paul geluso, production, r&b, Recording, visualization
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
A significant chunk of the music I’ve made in the past year has been prompted by a blogger and journalist named Marc Weidenbaum, proprietor of the fine electronic music web zine Disquiet. This is funny, because while I’ve had a number of online exchanges with Marc, we’ve never actually met face to face. Nevertheless, in [...]
Also filed in Composition, Internet, Music, Sampling, Social Media
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Tagged avant-garde, blogging, community, disquiet, experimental, junto, marc weidenbaum, Music
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Discussing “Silver Apples Of The Moon” puts me in a quandary. I like Morton Subotnick personally, and very much enjoyed studying with him. I appreciate his desire to liberate the world from the shackles of keyboard-centric thinking. There’s no question that his music is personal, original and forward-thinking. But I find myself unable to emotionally [...]
Also filed in Composition, Hardware, Interfaces, Sampling
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Tagged analog, anxiety, buchla, Composition, electronica, modernism, morton subotnick, rhythm
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Recently, I was on Connecticut Public Radio’s Colin McEnroe show, talking about the culture and history of the mashup. I gave my usual enthusiastic endorsement of the practice. My friend Jesse Selengut, an ace jazz trumpet player and all-around music master, had some responses.
Also filed in Composition, Copyright and Authorship, Music, Sampling
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Tagged appropriation, capitalism, collage, Composition, copyright, dj earworm, hip-hop, jesse selengut, mashups, memes, Music, ownership, production, Recording, rolling stones, Sampling, susan blackmore
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Apple has long made a practice of giving away cool software with their computers. One of the coolest such freebies is Garageband. It’s a stripped down version of Logic aimed at beginners, and it’s a surprisingly robust tool. The software instruments and loops sound terrific, the interface is approachable, and it’s generally a great scratchpad. [...]
Also filed in Hardware, Interfaces, Music, Sampling
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Tagged apple, beginners, drumming, garageband, guitar, interfaces, ios, ipad, keybs, linkedin, midi, Music, music teaching, Sampling, sequencing, songwriting
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I recently saw Under African Skies, the documentary about Paul Simon’s Graceland, and it was spellbinding. The music is so beautiful, the politics are so agonizing. I watched it with my mom and sister, which is appropriate since Graceland was in heavy rotation through my childhood. Mom isn’t a big pop scholar and knew next [...]
Also filed in Autobio, Composition, Copyright and Authorship, Improvisation, Key Musicians, Music, Race and Identity
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Tagged accordion, africa, apartheid, Bakithi Kumalo, bass, chevy chase, copyright, graceland, guitar, judaica, ladysmith black mambazo, Music, ownership, paul simon, Politics, race, ray phiri, south africa
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