Author: Mark Jonathan ButlerPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253346629
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The first music-driven analysis of electronic dance music.
Electronic Dance Music Grooves
Author: Josh BessPublisher: Hal Leonard Books
ISBN: 9781480393769
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Provides creative insights to help you understand how to build exciting, powerful, and compelling EDM grooves. ... Includes over 300 professional-quality drum and effect samples, more than 300 drum grooves and MIDI files, 17 Ableton Live Drum Racks, and much more.: --back cover.
Dust & Grooves
Author: Eilon PazPublisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1607748703
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.
Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Author: Anne DanielsenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317091396
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction presents new insights into the study of musical rhythm through investigations of the micro-rhythmic design of groove-based music. The main purpose of the book is to investigate how technological mediation - in the age of digital music production tools - has influenced the design of rhythm at the micro level. Through close readings of technology-driven popular music genres, such as contemporary R&B, hip-hop, trip-hop, electro-pop, electronica, house and techno, as well as played folk music styles, the book sheds light on how investigations of the musical-temporal relationships of groove-based musics might be fruitfully pursued, in particular with regard to their micro-rhythmic features. This book is based on contributions to the project Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction (RADR), a five-year research project running from 2004 to 2009 that was funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
260 Drum Machine Patterns
Author: Rene-Pierre BardetPublisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780881888874
Category : Drum machine
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book is a supplement to the first volume of Drum Machine Patterns. In it you will find over 260 rhythm patterns and breaks. These are original patterns that can be programmed easily on any drum machine. This book contains the rhythms most often used in contemporary music, and many patterns incorporate flams, to be used on the latest generation of drum machines."--Amazon
Digital Signatures
Author: Ragnhild BrøvigPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262549638
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
How sonically distinctive digital “signatures”—including reverb, glitches, and autotuning—affect the aesthetics of popular music, analyzed in works by Prince, Lady Gaga, and others. Is digital production killing the soul of music? Is Auto-Tune the nadir of creative expression? Digital technology has changed not only how music is produced, distributed, and consumed but also—equally important but not often considered—how music sounds. In this book, Ragnhild Brøvig and Anne Danielsen examine the impact of digitization on the aesthetics of popular music. They investigate sonically distinctive “digital signatures”—musical moments when the use of digital technology is revealed to the listener. The particular signatures of digital mediation they examine include digital reverb and delay, MIDI and sampling, digital silence, the virtual cut-and-paste tool, digital glitches, microrhythmic manipulation, and autotuning—all of which they analyze in specific works by popular artists. Combining technical and historical knowledge of music production with musical analyses, aesthetic interpretations, and theoretical discussions, Brøvig and Danielsen offer unique insights into how digitization has changed the sound of popular music and the listener's experience of it. For example, they show how digital reverb and delay have allowed experimentation with spatiality by analyzing Kate Bush's “Get Out of My House”; they examine the contrast between digital silence and the low-tech noises of tape hiss or vinyl crackle in Portishead's “Stranger”; and they describe the development of Auto-Tune—at first a tool for pitch correction—into an artistic effect, citing work by various hip-hop artists, Bon Iver, and Lady Gaga.
Beyond Beatmatching
Author: Yakov VorobyevPublisher: Mixed in Key
ISBN: 9780615639864
Category : Disc jockeys
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The team behind Mixed In Key software explores the art of professional DJing to answer one simple question: What can you do to become a better DJ? Beyond Beatmatching will show you how to: Use harmonic mixing in your DJ sets Mix with energy levels in mind Dig for the most unique tracks and define your sound Build a perfect DJ laptop Mix a flawless DJ set Create your own mashups Get gigs at nightclubs and festivals Build your brand with a logo design, publicity shots and press kit Use Facebook and social media to expand your audience The book also features in-depth interviews with key DJs, innovators and executives, including Markus Schulz, DJ Sasha, A-list manager Ash Pournouri, talent booker Biz Martinez, marketing guru Karl Detken, and many more. Written in a user-friendly, straightforward tone and rife with valuable insights about the history (and future) of modern DJing, Beyond Beatmatching covers ground that no guide to DJing has attempted to date. Get this book today and discover a wealth of advanced techniques already known to the world's best DJs.
Producing Drum Beats
Author: Erik HawkinsPublisher: Berklee Press Publications
ISBN: 9780876391037
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
(Berklee Guide). Whether you're into hip-hop, urban, rock, alternative, dance, electronic, jazz, blues, or country, drums play a prominent roll in the production and arrangement of a song. This book will help to explain everything you'll need to know to produce your own killer beats, from describing individual drums and how they are most commonly played, to MIDI drum sequencing tricks used by the pros, and the proper use of compression, EQ, and group effects when mixing drums. Over time and with steady practice, you'll be able to make these drum production techniques your own, taking your song production skills to the next level while at the same time becoming a master beat-maker.
Presence and Pleasure
Author: Anne DanielsenPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819501603
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
In this exploration of the funk groove and its unique sounds, author Anne Danielsen takes an in-depth look at this under-explored genre. Danielsen concentrates on the golden age of funk in the late 1960s and the 1970s, focusing on two of the era's artists who made a substantial impact on the landscape of popular music: James Brown and George Clinton/Parliament. Aiming to understand funk not only as objectified musical meaning but also as lived experience, she begins with the musical events themselves and draws on her experiences as both a fan and a scholar to capture how their particular organization creates the funk listener's pleasure. Danielsen further examines issues surrounding race in the construction and consumption of this music, focusing her study with how white listeners responded to funk in the 1970s, and arguing that African American music has remained a means of catharsis and of dealing with pleasures of the body. Funk's crossover to international success among listeners of pop and rock music affected both the music itself and audiences' understanding of it. Presence and Pleasure shows us how.
Ecotronica
Author: Ami PeluchettiPublisher: Ami Peluchetti
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Ecotronica is a creative visual, conceptual and sonic investigation of phenomena which explores the nexus of music, technology and ecology. It is driven by mounting socio-ecological concerns and seeks to develop new creative practices and re-conceptualisations that are responsive to the Anthropocene epoch. In particularMore specifically, the projectit is attuned to current advances in audio technologiesy that can extend human perception of the environment, and innovative concepts that reconcile divisions between the human and the nonhuman. To these ends the research contributes to knowledge by bringing a theoretical framework grounded in new materialist conceptualisations into dialogue with sound studies and practice-based music research. It gives expression to an assemblage of novel human and nonhuman sonic processes and intra-actions by means of bio-data sonification, field recording, cymatics, electronic music composition and tactile audio technologies. The thesis draws from areas of study related with sound, music composition and ,contributes to the key fields of creative data sonification, sonic art and electronic music, both materially and conceptually, through a creative apparatus presented as a four-minute original music composition with accompanying film and multi-media installation with accompanying written exegesis.
