Some sounds I made for Mellisonic’s additive synthesizer – Polyphylla: Unique Drony #Polyphylla sound textures created by @Ocsprey https://t.co/EqF4ISbNc5#maxforlive #ableton — Mellisonic (@MellisonicAudio) May 22, 2016
Generative Music as a term is attributable to Brian Eno, who in the liner notes to his 1975 album Discreet Music wrote: “Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little […]
I think it’s fair to say 2015 and ’16 have been significant to ontology. AI from Google’s DeepDream seemed to ooze onto the internet, it’s generative and beautiful images to me seemed like organelles or embryonic forms evolving ever-closer to the forms of human perception, or imagery in […]
Starting out is overwhelming. I’m fortunate enough to be fairly adaptable to software and hardware, one of my backgrounds being cyber and physical security systems. But Ableton is a powerful DAW, it reminds me of Office or Photoshop – accessible, but deep. Music theory is also not my […]
I’m sure many longterm musicians may have little recollection of the difference between listening to music, and producing it. In my case, this distinction has been a recent epiphany. An epiphany because I wasn’t really aware of the distinction. I’ve always wanted to produce music. About 15 years […]
Well, the past 3 weeks have been eventful! It’s tough to spend the music-making season (eternity) dealing with the Holidays! Yes, I was up after Midnight on Christmas Eve – sneaking and watching Ableton tutorial videos long after the family was sleeping: Secretly reading tutorials whilst everyone sleeps. […]
Over the past decade or so, beer culture, like so many other cultures, has proliferated. The web of course, and the object-oriented culture it proliferates, tends to make discovery or “search” a ubiquitous arbiter of culture, and quality. Limitations to discernment though, do still exist, as do opportunities […]
When you get down to the fundamental building block of sound, the sine wave, it’s easy to envision sound as code. From there, building sound is just a matter of coding in variances to the sound wave. This is, of course, simple to understand, yet music is always […]
If there’s an award for something, I really feel I should get it. I’m excited to write up my whatnot from the past weeks, and also chuckling at myself for the wide range of subjects I’ve broached. But Let’s do it anyway…
Virtual Reality is back! Depending on your perspective, that statement might mean one of several things. For me, Virtual Reality is associated with Avatars and Virtual Reality Chat Rooms. In the late 90’s chat rooms were novel, so much so that they drove the development of #VR. Shortly […]
