Category Archives: Education

The Process For Electronic Music Production: The path to finishing release quality songs consistently in any style

By | November 4, 2023

The Process For Electronic Music Production: The path to finishing release quality songs consistently in any style Music production can be an elusive art form for many, and the challenges that face someone who is new to this can easily create overwhelm and lead to complete paralysis. In my previous book “The Mental Game of Electronic Music Production”,… Read More »

The Music Theory Of Godfrey Winham PDF

By | November 4, 2023

The Music Theory Of Godfrey Winham PDF This book serves as an introduction to the work of Godfrey Winham, an influential figure in American music theory circles in the 1960s. Little published in his lifetime, Winham left behind, at his premature death in 1974, a massive collection of notes: correspondence, unfinished articles, sketches for books, etc. These notes… Read More »

Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry PDF

By | October 30, 2023

Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry PDF Tells a new story about the history of the music business and the ten technological advances that disrupted it over the last century. In recent years, narratives about the music industry tend to hew to a common theme: it was humming along for decades until the Internet… Read More »

All You Need to Know About the Music Business, 11th Edition PDF

By | October 27, 2023

All You Need to Know About the Music Business, 11th Edition PDF Dubbed “the industry bible” by the Los Angeles Times, All You Need to Know About the Music Business by veteran music lawyer Donald Passman is the go-to guide for everyone in the music business through ten editions, over thirty years, and over a half a million… Read More »

The Masters: Curated Audio Excerpts: Historic Recordings with Lennon, Jagger, Townshend Garcia Bono & Springsteen [Audiobook]

By | September 29, 2023

The Masters: Curated Audio Excerpts: Historic Recordings with Lennon, Jagger, Townshend Garcia Bono & Springsteen [Audiobook] During fifty years of publishing the “Bible of Rock and Roll,” Jann Wenner recorded a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most important historical documents of rock. From the hubris and pissed-off attitude of Pete Townshend, to the volcano… Read More »

Scoring Sound: Creative Music Coding with SuperCollider PDF

By | September 28, 2023

Scoring Sound: Creative Music Coding with SuperCollider PDF Scoring Sound covers the basic approaches to sound synthesis, algorithmic composition and instrument design in SuperCollider. This tutorial has been used in workshops around the world for over a decade, and was included in the MIT Press SuperCollider Book. The Scoring Sound book is a creative audio coding tutorial for… Read More »

The Computer Music Tutorial 2

By | September 1, 2023

The Computer Music Tutorial 2 Essential and state-of-the-art, The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition is a singular text that introduces computer and electronic music, explains its motivations, and puts topics into context. Curtis Roads’s step-by-step presentation orients musicians, engineers, scientists, and anyone else new to computer and electronic music. The new edition continues to be the definitive tutorial… Read More »

Science, Music & Mathematics: The Deepest Connections PDF

By | August 26, 2023

Science, Music & Mathematics: The Deepest Connections Professor Michael Edgeworth McIntyre is an eminent scientist who has also had a part-time career as a musician. From a lifetime’s thinking, he offers this extraordinary synthesis exposing the deepest connections between science, music, and mathematics, while avoiding equations and technical jargon. He begins with perception psychology and the dichotomization instinct… Read More »

The Beatles & Beatlesque: A Crossdisciplinary Analysis of Sound Production & Stylistic Impact PDF

By | August 7, 2023

The Beatles & Beatlesque: A Crossdisciplinary Analysis of Sound Production & Stylistic Impact PDF The Beatles and the Beatlesque address a paradox emanating from The Beatles’ music through a cross-disciplinary hybrid of reflections, drawing from both, musical practice itself and academic research. Indeed, despite their extreme stylistic variety, The Beatles’ songs seem to always bear a distinctive identity… Read More »

The Business Behind the Song: Navigating a Career in the Music Industry PDF

By | August 7, 2023

The Business Behind the Song: Navigating a Career in the Music Industry PDF Whether you’re an aspiring artist, a new college grad, or a seasoned professional, Scott Brickell’s The Business Behind the Song is a must-have handbook for helping you navigate the often-confusing, seemingly unapproachable world of the music industry. Drawing on his years of experience as a… Read More »