Here’s an email conversation I’ve been having with my friend Greg Brown about Kanye West’s recent albums. Greg is a classical composer and performer with a much more avant-garde sensibility than mine. The exchange is lightly edited for clarity. Greg: I’ve been listening to 808s and Heartbreak and Twisted Fantasy. I’m really enjoying them. Far [...]
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Also tagged 808, 808s and heartbreak, autotune, classical, distortion, fiona apple, frank ocean, hip-hop, jay-z, john adams, kanye west, pop, rnb, Sampling, singing, soul, watch the throne
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Chapman, Dale. “That Ill, Tight Sound”: Telepresence and Biopolitics in Post-Timbaland Rap Production. Journal of the Society for American Music (2008) Volume 2, Number 2, pp. 155–175. Chapman examines the impact that Timbaland has had on popular music production, and what his significance is to the broader culture. While Timbaland himself is no longer the [...]
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Also tagged anxiety, dance, hip-hop, Internet, linkedin, missy elliot, pop, production, technomusicology, timbaland
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Auto-tune was already a well-established studio tool by the time “Believe” came out, though it was unknown outside the music industry.
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Also tagged autotune, cher, dance, electronica, Music, pop, quora, Recording, Software
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Okay, so we’ve all firmly established that he’s not exactly Mr Personality. President Obama called him a jackass. Even before he disrupted the MTV awards, a lot of my friends disliked him intensely. This dislike crosses racial, class and gender boundaries. And yet, I like Kanye’s music better than just about anything that anyone is [...]
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Also tagged autotune, depression, drum machines, electronica, Emotion, hip-hop, kanye west, lil wayne, masculinity, pop, remixes, t-pain, taylor swift
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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 [...]
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Also tagged audio editing, autotune, electronica, fourier, fun, hip-hop, imaginarynumbers, kanye west, karaoke, lil wayne, multitracking, Music, Music Theory, pop, pro tools, quantum, revival revival, Software
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