Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, is a good book. Thinking fast, or System 1 as he calls it, is your intuition. It’s quick,…
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Music as a whole consists of many facets: Pitch, Loudness, Harmony, Timbre, Rhythm… The thing is, rhythm is a whole different beast to those others,…
“We can change all of the pitches used in the song (transposition), the tempo, and the instrumentation, and the song is still recognized as the…
The creative gateways. That’s what I like to call them. They’re the things you’ll often come into when people recommend ways to get creativity flowing.…
“You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life”—Austin Kleon “I’m not creative.” I’ve heard that a few times. I…
Music is searching for itself, and we’re the observers. I’ve heard a few assumptions about music recently—now I’m sure these don’t apply to everyone, but…
I will start with the bad news and inform you that nothing you ever create, invent, design, or build is ever truly new. Sorry to…
Finding Pleasure in the Dissonant If you’ve not done already, I recommend reading the first two parts to this series: One and two. We’ve gone…
Why Does it Sound Good? Previously we looked into how we visually represent sound and a little on how our brains interpret that, now I…