There are as many ways of creating music as there are composers in the world, with a vast array of possible methods and practices. This book provides essential critical and practical tools for composers as they try to navigate this complex landscape, whilst also offering provocations for practitioners discovering their own voices and solidifying their place in their musical communities.
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Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio is the best-selling primer for small-studio enthusiasts who want chart-ready sonics in a hurry, and this extensively updated third edition now contains sections on DSP phase-linearization, loudness normalization, oversampling, mixing from stems, frequency shifting, and analog summing.
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13-09-2025, 00:50
Award-winning film critic Mark Kermode and radio producer Jenny Nelson embark on a full-throttle trip down the glorious rabbit hole of film composition to answer these questions and more.
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12-09-2025, 08:50
Like the videos themselves, this book is written from the perspective of a Bitwig User, but whenever appropriate i included alternative ways to implement the techniques using different DAWs and free Plugins.
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2-09-2025, 18:36
From prehistoric songwriting to digital recording, discover the history of the world’s favorite art form No other art is as popular―or pervasive―as music. With just a few clicks, anyone can cue up (and critique) Chopin or Cher, The Bangles or The Beatles―even the brand-new Beyoncé. But things weren’t always this way.
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26-08-2025, 08:39
Heaviness in Metal Music Production, Volume II: Learn from the Masters details how the fundamental musical quality of metal, ‘heaviness’, is created during record production, offering unprecedented learning opportunities provided by eight world-leading producers mixing the same multi-track of the song ‘In Solitude’ and sharing insights into their creative visions and technical realizations.
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26-07-2025, 14:48
Here are the untold stories behind country’s most influential songs from the tunesmiths themselves—featuring interviews with Jelly Roll, Taylor Swift cowriters Liz Rose and Lori McKenna, Luke Combs cowriter Drew Parker, Morgan Wallen hit writer Josh Thompson, chart-toppers Clint Black and Vince Gill, legends and trendsetters like the late Merle Haggard and Kinky Friedman, Americana troubadour Jim Lauderdale, and song crafters with scores in film and television like A Star Is Born Oscar nominees Hillary Lindsey and Natalie Hemby and Songland judge Shane McAnally.
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8-07-2025, 22:23
Music poses unique and complex challenges for artificial intelligence, even as 21st-century AI grows ever more adept at generating compelling content. The AI Music Problem: Why Machine Learning Conflicts With Musical Creativity probes the challenges behind AI-generated music, with an investigation that straddles the technical, the musical, and the aesthetic.
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19-06-2025, 23:52
An In-Depth Analysis of The Beatles' Music and the Theory, Techniques, and Technology That Made It Possible When people look back in two hundred years time at our culture, whose music will have survived from today?
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10-06-2025, 13:18
The relationship between artificial intelligence and music is no longer a futuristic fantasy—it is a transformative reality. "The AI Music Revolution: Creativity, Controversy, and Collaboration" explores how AI is reshaping music creation, analysis, and experience, from generating complex symphonies to analyzing intricate musical patterns.
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8-06-2025, 11:38
The Audio Circuits Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of high-quality audio circuit modules―“building blocks” ―that readers can arrange to create complete audio devices. More than 80 featured circuits cover every aspect of audio, from basics such as active rectifiers, peak followers, and oscillators, to complete professional quality devices including compressors, equalizers, preamps, and an analog synthesizer.
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28-05-2025, 11:30
Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound pioneers: musique concrète. Évelyne Gayou—herself a researcher, composer, and producer at the GRM—tells the history of the storied institution through the people, works, technologies, and research developed there.
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27-05-2025, 16:48
Audio Augmented Reality: Concepts, Technologies and Narratives provides readers with a comprehensive overview of audio augmented reality (AAR), focussing on its narrative potential while discussing several design considerations and prospective application domains. In this groundbreaking book, sound designer Matias Harju provides a practical and insightful exploration of the medium.
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27-05-2025, 00:10
For fifty years as DJ, producer and remixer, Arthur Baker has been at the pioneering forefront of hip-hop, rock, and electronic music. His unique and genre-defying sound can be heard on tracks by legendary artists like New Order, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, the Rolling Stones, Al Green, Pet Shop Boys, Quincy Jones, New Edition, Hall & Oates, Neneh Cherry, Mogwai and Fleetwood Mac.
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22-05-2025, 11:14
A critical examination of the twenty-first century fetishization of professional audio technologies, and how it led to a new social formation: gear cultures. Gear: mixing consoles, outboard effects processors, microphones. These are professional studio recording-related technological objects—the tools of the recording industry—yet their omnipresence in the broader music industries and prosumer markets transcends the entrenched pro audio engineer guild. In Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies, authors Eliot Bates and Samantha Bennett ask: How does gear become gear? Why is it fetishized? And how is it even relevant in the predominantly digital twenty-first-century music technology landscape?
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21-05-2025, 13:11