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What’s in Graham Massey’s Toolshed?

18/06/2018

The eclectic, revolving lineup that is Graham Massey's Toolshed Collective make a rare Preston appearance at UCLAN's Media Factory, as part of Preston Jazz & Improvisation Festival...

Make Better Music 82: Monetizing Music (Part Two)

27/05/2016

Working musician Simon Laffy ponders the recurring problem of making music pay...

Make Better Music 80: The Art of Remixing (Part Two)

13/01/2016

Be careful to maintain the integrity of the original piece, while at all times striving to produce something new. ...

Make Better Music 79: The Art of Remixing (Part One)

27/11/2015

A luxurious wonderland of musical mystery and adventure that both complements and embellishes...

Make Better Music 78 :The Recording Process (Part Three)

07/10/2015

Music is more about making people connect emotionally with your message than being impressed by your playing ability...

Alan Parsons ‘Sleeve Notes’ Talks at Abbey Road

14/09/2015

A fascinating insight into technical and personal experiences at Abbey Road Studios....

Make Better Music 77: The Recording Process (Part Two)

12/09/2015

Style should transcend technique, but it cannot replace it...

Make Better Music 76 : The Recording Process

11/08/2015

No matter how boring, frustrating, agonising or infuriating it may seem simply going over and over the parts to be recorded, the value of that repetitive hand-eye/finger-digit movement will bring to...

Make Better Music 74 : Collaboration

22/06/2015

The ability to listen, appreciate, evaluate and contribute towards a fellow-musician’s creativity is a high order skill and the rewards often completely justify the effort....

Make Better Music 75 : The Producer

20/05/2015

It is a rare gift indeed to successfully carry your own music throughout the entire creation process....

Make Better Music 74: Notes on Composition

26/04/2015

When approaching a music writing session, have some sense of the idea you intend to reveal...

Make Better Music 73: Mindful Qualities

24/03/2015

Quality requires a mindfulness and quietness to allow ideas to form, take shape, emerge and grow...

What is Black and White in Sound?

20/05/2014

How do we remove timbre from sound, the way we can remove color from an image? How do we get an aural analog of black & white images?...

On Twitter, Birdsong and Bards

08/05/2014

The Mistle Thrush reminds us not to be beguiled by outward display but to see through to what, if anything, lies beneath....

Make Better Music 72 : Music Theory

30/04/2014

Music theory is way of labelling sounds and ideas in a way that highlights the relationships between them...

Supersonic Festival 2014 2-Dayer

12/02/2014

On 30th and 31st May, Capsule present 'Supersonic Festival Ltd Edt' and shall return to the Custard Factory where it all began…...

Listening : Modes and Strategies

20/01/2014

Listening is largely, though not exclusively, a conscious activity. ...

Aesthetics and the Art of Audio Field Recording

05/11/2013

'What is the artistic element of so seemingly ‘passive’ an activity as pointing a mic and pushing the record button?' Steven Miller teaches us how to record, and how to listen....

Band Diaries : Vienna Ditto

01/11/2013

It’s a queasy, greasy, sleazy sort of sound that inspired a load of complaints from the upstairs neighbour, but he’s an idiot....

Make Better Music 71: Sound/Light

11/07/2013

Though both deal with wave-like phenomena, sound and light each have their own peculiarities. ...

Make Better Music 70 : Time

10/05/2013

There is no aural analog of the photograph or still frame from a film. Sound is, at its core, inherently a time-dependent phenomenon. ...

Make Better Music 69: On Sound

02/04/2013

"It is common for us to be in situations where we can not see (or at least vision is severely restricted) but exceedingly uncommon to be in situations where we can not hear"...

Into the Appalachians [Tour Diary]

20/11/2012

'A single lane road etched through this land that’s not the north, or south, that's forgotten by the east but far from the west. If you pointed a rifle at the vast nothing that encompasses the...

Make Better Music 68: Words and Music

29/11/2011

Writing music comes easily to me for the most part, I’ve usually got a surplus of ideas, so the only the most interesting actually get worked on. The more derivative and unimaginative ideas get...

Make Better Music 67: Raw Power and Sophistication

22/11/2011

For some, measured, intelligent songwriting skills are the pinnacle of musical enjoyment, for others it can be the antithesis of what music is there for - the expression of raw emotion....

Make Better Music 66: Embrace the Chaos

15/11/2011

In the midst of a vast YouTube binge the other evening (I’ve got a thirst for seeking out to interviews with musicians I like, and seem to be hopeless at turning YouTube off), I happened to come...

Make Better Music 65: A Musical Process

08/11/2011

So this week, having been inspired by a particular piece of music, I’m going to focus on one particular kind of procedure - which doesn’t really have a name. I’ll just try to describe it....

Make Better Music 64: “What Comes Next?”

01/11/2011

Make Better Music 64: “What Comes Next?”The big question that always demands an answer, when you are writing music, is what happens next? It seems straightforward until you try it. Then...

Make Better Music 63: Simplicity vs Complexity

18/10/2011

Sometimes I like to overload a song with overdubs and production tricks - if that is what suits it. More can be more in this case. Of course the opposite is also true, less intensely produced music...

Make Better Music 62: Working Out Your Musical Muscles

11/10/2011

Of course, if you are writing a song every day, it’s unlikely that you are going to be churning out a double album of SOLID GOLD CLASSICS each months, but on the flip side, it will do you a lot of...

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