Category Archives: Education
The Masters: Curated Audio Excerpts: Historic Recordings with Lennon, Jagger, Townshend Garcia Bono & Springsteen [Audiobook]
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“Bible of Rock and Roll,” Jann Wenner recorded a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most important historical documents of rock.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
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
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
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
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
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 »
Red Bow Music All the Music Theory a Producer Needs PDF
Red Bow Music All the Music Theory a Producer Needs PDF The full book. Here I take you from not knowing what a C note is to being able to manipulate the different degrees, chords and scales to accomplish the sound you want. Here I present to you a way to skip those 2 years I spent learning… Read More »
Modern Recording Techniques A Practical Guide to Modern Music Production 10th Edition PDF
Modern Recording Techniques A Practical Guide to Modern Music Production 10th Edition PDF Modern Recording Techniques is the bestselling, authoritative guide to sound and music recording. Whether you’re just starting out or are looking to improve your skills, this book provides an in-depth guide to the art and technologies of music production and is a must-have reference for… Read More »
The Mathematics of Music & Art PDF
The Mathematics of Music & Art PDF This book explores the relationships between music, the sciences, and mathematics, both ancient and modern, with a focus on the big picture for a general audience as opposed to delving into very technical details. The language of music is deciphered through the language of mathematics. Readers are shown how apparently unrelated… Read More »
Music Producers Guide to Logic Pro (1st Edition) 2023 PDF
Rethinking Music through Science & Technology Studies PDF
Rethinking Music through Science & Technology Studies PDF This volume seeks to offer a new approach to the study of music through the lens of recent works in science and technology studies (STS), which propose that facts are neither absolute truths, nor completely relative, but emerge from an intensely collective process of construction. Applied to the study of… Read More »
Music Technology Essentials: A Home Studio Guide
Music Technology Essentials: A Home Studio Guide Music Technology Essentials provides an overview of the vocabulary, techniques, concepts, and devices used in contemporary music production, and guides readers through the essential fundamentals of music technology so that they can create their own music productions at home. This highly accessible book covers sound fundamentals and theory, as well as… Read More »
Networked Music Performance Theory & Applications PDF
Networked Music Performance Theory & Applications PDF Networked Music Performance (NMP) is the essential guide to both playing music online and ensemble music through networks. Offering a range of case studies, from highly technical solutions to inclusive community projects, this book provides inspiration to musicians to try NMP whatever their level of technical expertise. Drawing upon recent research… Read More »
Forging Pathways to Improvise Music PDF
Forging Pathways to Improvise Music PDF A step-by-step resource on forging one’s own pathway to improvise music, this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the reader’s genre of choice. Many musicians struggle with improvisation. Coincidentally, educators also find it challenging to integrate improvisation into curriculum. This book breaks down… Read More »
