Category Archives: Education

Sound On Sound UK August 2021

By | July 27, 2021

Sound On Sound UK August 2021 Sound On Sound is the world’s best recording technology magazine, packed full of in-depth, independent product tests, including music software, studio hardware, keyboards and live sound (PA) gear. Every issue also includes SOS’s unique step-by-step tutorial and technique columns on all the leading DAW programs, as well as insightful interviews with leading… Read More »

Beat Recording Workflow PDF

By | July 21, 2021

Beat Recording Workflow PDF Whether large studio, home recording or laptop setup… when creative ideas come up, a well thought-out workflow is essential. But what can you do to optimize your hardware and software setup so that ideas can be captured quickly and efficiently when the muse kisses you? And how do you get the best sound when… Read More »

Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education PDF

By | July 21, 2021

Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education PDF Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education develops an activist music education rooted in principles of social justice and anti-oppression. Based on the interviews of 20 activist-musicians across the United States and Canada, the book explores the common themes, perceptions, and philosophies among them,… Read More »

Two Beats Ahead: What Great Musical Minds Teach Us About Creativity & Innovation, UK Edition

By | July 20, 2021

Two Beats Ahead: What Great Musical Minds Teach Us About Creativity & Innovation, UK Edition Musicians are masters of innovation, constantly finding new ways to adapt to accelerating change and staying ahead of the beat. In Two Beats Ahead, Michael Hendrix and Panos Panay demystify the artistic process of some of the greatest creative minds of our time… Read More »

Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation PDF

By | July 16, 2021

Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation PDF This book is a survey and analysis of how deep learning can be used to generate musical content. The authors offer a comprehensive presentation of the foundations of deep learning techniques for music generation. They also develop a conceptual framework used to classify and analyze various types of architecture, encoding models,… Read More »

Digital Filters: Analysis, Design & Signal Processing Applications

By | July 15, 2021

Digital Filters: Analysis, Design & Signal Processing Applications Written by a Life Fellow of the IEEE, this comprehensive textbook teaches digital filter design, realization, and implementation and provides detailed illustrations and real-world applications of digital filters to signal processing. Digital Filters: Analysis, Design, and Signal Processing Applications provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals and concepts of DSP… Read More »

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence for Music: Foundations, Advanced Approaches & Developments for Creativity PDF

By | July 14, 2021

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence for Music: Foundations, Advanced Approaches & Developments for Creativity PDF This book presents comprehensive coverage of the latest advances in research into enabling machines to listen to and compose new music. It includes chapters introducing what we know about human musical intelligence and on how this knowledge can be simulated with AI. The development… Read More »

Music Cultures in Sounds, Words & Images PDF

By | July 14, 2021

Music Cultures in Sounds, Words & Images PDF “Music cultures in sounds, words and images”, edited by Antonio Baldassarre and Tatjana Markovic, is dedicated to the 60th birthday of the Croatian-American musicologist Zdravko Blažekovic (b. 1956, Zagreb). After his studies of musicology and first working experiences in Zagreb, Blažekovic moved to New York City, where he is since… Read More »

Indirection: On Becoming a Better Musician & Trumpet Player as a Conceptual Process PDF

By | July 14, 2021

Indirection: On Becoming a Better Musician & Trumpet Player as a Conceptual Process PDF Indirection: On Becoming a Better Musician and Trumpet Player as a Conceptual Process Paperback – April 10, 2021 Combining a memoir by one of today’s most renowned musicians with musical insights, reflections from colleagues and students, and even a few recipes, INDIRECTION is both… Read More »

Let’s Calculate Bach: Applying Information Theory & Statistics to Numbers in Music

By | July 14, 2021

Let’s Calculate Bach: Applying Information Theory & Statistics to Numbers in Music This book shows how information theory, probability, statistics, mathematics and personal computers can be applied to the exploration of numbers and proportions in music. It brings the methods of scientific and quantitative thinking to questions like: What are the ways of encoding a message in music… Read More »

Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music, 2nd Edition

By | July 13, 2021

Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music, 2nd Edition Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music presents an approach to conceptualizing and utilizing technology as a tool for music learning. Designed for use by pre- and in-service music teachers, it provides the essential understandings required to become an… Read More »

The Auditory Setting: Environmental Sounds in Film & Media Arts

By | July 12, 2021

The Auditory Setting: Environmental Sounds in Film & Media Arts The Auditory Setting introduces and investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film and media arts through the reproduction and mediation of site-specific environmental sounds, or ‘ambience’. Although this sonic backdrop acts as the acoustically mediated space where a story or event can take… Read More »

Beat Specials English Edition Melodic Techno 2021 PDF

By | July 12, 2021

Beat Specials English Edition Melodic Techno 2021 PDF A minimal beat at a moderate tempo, soft booming bass and dreamy melodies … the concept for a typical melodic techno track could look like this or similar. Sure, the reality looks much more complex, but in principle, simple structures and goosebump moments have higher priority in this sound than… Read More »

The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music PDF

By | July 12, 2021

The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music PDF The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music establishes EDM’s place on the map of popular music. The book accounts for various ambiguities, variations, transformations, and manifestations of EDM, pertaining to its generic fragmentation, large geographical spread, modes of consumption and, changes in technology. It focuses especially on its current state, its future,… Read More »