This book focuses on the shift in the perception of music by educated classes, from the Greek view as an essentially rational enterprise to the modern view as an essentially artistic enterprise. One...
Experiencing Sound presents its subject as fundamental to all experience—sensation, perception, and understanding. Lawrence Kramer turns on its head the widespread notion that vision takes pride of...
Machine Music: How AI is Transforming Music's Next Act explores the seismic impact of AI on the music industry – offering a sweeping yet grounded analysis of how AI and generative tools are reshaping...
Without any ambition to reach scientific levels, this book aims to be a toolbox for both audio lovers and high-end equipment designers. The elementary theory presented is the bare minimum for readers...
Learn the rules, follow the rules, break the rules, make music. The music in your heart may not conform to the rules you will learn in this books, or it may follow the rules without exception, rules...
This book explores the multifaceted skill of choral conducting, from vocal training and gesture to interpretation and rehearsal techniques. It examines the core skills every budding conductor needs...
Whether you're launching a record label or taking your music career into your own hands, the second edition of The Label Machine gives you a complete system. It combines timeless industry knowledge...
Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the “music of poetry.” The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics...
Vocals tell the story that make the all-important connection between singer and listener, but recording a vocal isn't as simple as just putting a mic in front of someone and hoping for the best. This...
This Handbook explores and critiques a new sonic reality – one which unearths new narratives that chart embryonic practices from the early twentieth century that have developed in parallel with...
Recording Orchestra and Other Classical Music Ensembles explores techniques and methodologies specific to recording classical music. Whether the reader is a newcomer or a seasoned engineer looking to...
Sound Signatures: Crafting Your Electronic Music Identity explores ways to help electronic musicians establish their unique signature sound through new methods of sound creation and manipulation. It...
Format: Synth Presets, TUTORiALGenre: Trap or Trapstep, Rap or Hip Hop, RnBPresets: Other PluginsLearning: Mixing & MasteringThe Mix Essentials Kit gives you a simple but powerful system to make your loops and beats sound clean, hard hitting, and professional – without overthinking every move or relying on random YouTube...
A Genre-Based Guide to Drum Patterns and Chord Progressions is the ultimate cheat code for producers, musicians, and beat nerds who want to stop fumbling around in the dark and start building bangers...