Posted on 18/05/2016
Sometimes you need to do further work on a piece, but you only have a full stereo mix. This can be the case for remixes or mixtapes, and for creative re-use of your own past creations. [gdlr_quote align=”center” ]A full stereo mix, although seemingly limited, is a valuable source of musical material, if you take the time to de-compose […]
Posted on 17/05/2016
In line with the many other randomized and algorithmic experiments, I have looked into the consequences and pitfalls with shuffled playback of pieces. It is appealing, that the user will get a new and surprising experience every time they turn to your platform. But it also puts high demands on consistency and quality, since ANY […]
Posted on 17/05/2016
I have always been a big fan of Brian Eno‘s “Oblique Strategies” concept. The thought of letting chance influence on your work is very appealing, since it prevents you from being stuck in comfort zones and “business as usual”. The random concept was already put to use early on, e.g. on chord selections, and arrangement decisions. The […]
Posted on 14/05/2016
The Fluxic way of remixing stuff is somewhat deviant from general practices. By isolating the various elements of a track, and then preparing and looping that information algorithmically you will get a coincidental sequence of the elements that will produce results, ranging from the brillant to the useless. Depending on the raw material, this method […]
Posted on 09/05/2016
You are in the middle of your next masterpiece, when you suddenly remember the cool funk part you had on an earlier version of the track. That would fit very well to the current arrangement. But wait… Exactly which version was it? Was it the “premix final version 7” version? Or the “radio master revised […]
Posted on 08/05/2016
The term “dogmatic sound use” covers situations, where you only have one – or very few – basic sounds at your disposal. Such a limited basic sound set can be stretched and tweaked to get maximum mileage out of every sound. Some examples of what you can do to achieve this play the sound at a higher […]
Posted on 08/05/2016
It’s Aunties Birthday… You may dismiss a standard preset style arranger keyboard as only belonging at your auntie’s birthday, but in fact they can be creatively abused to generate musically interesting patterns and sounds. The various styles each generate a different MIDI output. Any old arranger keyboard can be used for this purpose. Only requirement is that […]
Posted on 06/05/2016
I have always had an interest for randomness when creating synth sounds. Some of the very early DX-7 editors for the Commodore-64 computer featured a randomizing feature that produced completely unpredictable results. Most of it was useless, but every once in a while you would come up with a sound that you had not heard […]
Posted on 28/04/2016
Depending on your type you may want to organize yourself to be prepared for the moment when the muse hits. I find nothing more off-putting than having to deal with technical or organizing issues in the middle of an inspiring moment when you just want to get your ideas down. Over the course of many […]
Posted on 19/04/2016
The analog video standards and production methods have now become mostly irrelevant with the advent of cheap digital video equipment of high quality, So a lot of old analog equipment can now be found at reasonable prices. The good thing is, that premium analog video recorders also can serve as high quality audio tape recorders, […]