Music is a pervasive and versatile entity; while it may be difficult to write about it – like dancing about architecture – music can interplay very well with a range of other artforms…
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It’s that time of year again, when procrastinating musicians are challenged to take it upon themselves to defy their creative nitpicking and create an entire album in a single month…
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There’s a lot going on between us and the music – good vibrations (and bad) interact through a complex combination of physics and biology to move the sounds we hear into our brain. Explaining it all in a rather dynamic and engaging way is Vi Hart…
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An interesting clip was published by researchers from UC Berkeley earlier this year, which claimed they had managed to use functional MRI data to create a composite YouTube video corresponding to the visual input received by the test subject…
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My first encounter with audio effects processing was a humble distortion guitar pedal. Long before discovering the myriad of mind-bending effects available through computer-based DAW production, I had plenty of fun with the basic delay, chorus and flanger guitar pedals. However, even in the computer studio, there is still a place for pedal effects…
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There are many ways to create music using a computer, and many philosophies on how deep you should go into the technology. Some are quite happy to browse through presets, while others like to build their own synthesisers from the ground up. While both approaches are perfectly valid, there is certainly a middle ground where knowing even a little bit about patch creation can open up a new realm of sonic exploration…
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On a day when the world learned that one of the truly legendary figures of the digital age has passed on, it seems appropriate to acknowledge the role Steve Jobs played, not only in advancing our experience of computing generally, but also in changing how musicians interact with computers…
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Amon Tobin began his Ninja Tune voyage very much driven by a sampling engine; his first few albums were a delight of sound swangling and audio repurposing. However, in recent times he turned his hand to sound design from scratch – particularly with his previous album Foley Room, and now the recently released ISAM…
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The relationship between music and mathematics is an intimate one, and can be explored by moving from one to the other in either direction. A recent app allows users to transform those distinctly unnatural but ubiquitous patterns – barcodes – into music…
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Although modern laptops have become very powerful, and are generally well able to handle most music production tasks, there may come a time when you need some extra oomph from your machine. At that point, you can either get a new laptop – or upgrade the one you have…
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