My friend Leo told me that he always faces a conflict when shopping for jazz records. He wants to show love for working musicians by buying their newer recordings, but then, he could always just pick up another Miles Davis album and know it’s going to be ridiculously good. Probably my favorite Miles album out [...]
Filed in Composition, Improvisation, Key Musicians, Music, Recording, Sampling
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Also tagged funk, Improvisation, jazz, miles davis, Music, Music Theory, Recording, recursion, remixes, seventies, sixties, tape editing
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Like this sentence, computer programs and songs can refer to themselves. Many computer programs and songs are made of loops within loops within loops. Self-reference gives computers their extreme versatility. It also makes for richer, more interesting music.
Filed in Composition, Music, Software
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Also tagged computers, fugees, hip-hop, looping, Music, programming, recursion, remixes, Sampling, self-reference
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“The Funky Drummer Parts One And Two” by James Brown and the JBs is one of the most-sampled recordings in history. “The Funky Drummer” is a cornerstone of hip-hop and other sample-based electronic music, but for the first decade after its release it was an obscure tune. It’s a nice groove, but as a song, [...]
Filed in Composition, Copyright and Authorship, Evolution, Improvisation, Key Musicians, Music, Sampling
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Also tagged algorithms, black thought, copyright, digging the crates, eminem, freestyle, funk, funky drummer, godel, hip-hop, james brown, looping, memes, mos def, Music, programming, recursion, remixes, rnb, Sampling, soul, susan blackmore
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How do you get sound in and out of a computer? There are two steps. You have to turn the sound into electricity, and then you have to turn the electricity into numbers. Turning sound into electricity At the physical level, a sound is a rhythmic vibration of air molecules. Your ears can detect subtle [...]
Filed in Hardware, Math, Music
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Also tagged audio, binary, electronica, imaginarynumbers, Math, Music, perception, pro tools, Recording, visualization
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
My experience with Auto-tune has felt like stepping out the door of a rocket ship to explore a whole new sonic planet. Auto-tune entered my musical life mainly from my work with Barbara Singer, who I met in 2003. She posted in the Craigslist Musicians section about this gig she had at the now-defunct Korova [...]
Filed in Math, Music, Software
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Also tagged autotune, electronica, fourier, fun, hip-hop, imaginarynumbers, kanye west, karaoke, lil wayne, multitracking, Music, Music Theory, pop, posthuman, pro tools, quantum, revival revival, Software
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