Doctorate of Creative Industries Project 1 This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2015a) for the previous blog. Background The topic of my Research Study is entitled: Contemporary DIY Music Practice and the Practitioner Self. Through a first-person narrative of my personal journey, critical reflection and reflexive practice, the co-constituted nature of my...
Category: Music & Sound Theory & Practice
All things music and sound theory and the practice of music & sound. This could include: western music theory, world music & sound theory, and sonic sound theory.
Critical Listening
Four Tiers of Listening in Contemporary DIY Music & Sound-making Practice Series – Part 3a This blog represents the third in this series, the four (4) tiers of listening required in Contemporary DIY Music & Sound-making Practice. Please refer to my previous blog post for Part 2b, Reference Track Analysis (Page, 2015b). Introduction As I introduced in...
Reference Track Analysis
Four Tiers of Listening in Contemporary DIY Music & Sound-making Practice Series – Part 2b This blog represents the third in this series, the four (4) tiers of listening required in Contemporary DIY Music & Sound-making Practice. Please refer to my previous blog post for Part 2a, Reference Tracks (Page, 2015a). Analytical & Critical Listening task As...
Reference Tracks
Four Tiers of Listening in Contemporary DIY Music & Sound-making Practice Series – Part 2a This blog represents the second in this series, the four (4) tiers of listening required in Contemporary DIY Music & Sound-making Practice. Please refer to my previous blog post for Part 1c, The 3 Primary Tiers of Active Listening in...
Required skills of a Contemporary Music & Sound-making Practitioner
Four Tiers of Listening in Contemporary DIY Music & Sound-making Practice Series – Part 1a This blog represents the first in this series, the four (4) tiers of listening required in Contemporary DIY Music & Sound-making Practice. (Self-reflection sphere, 2016) Self-learning: the ‘discipline’ required to be a contemporary DIY music practitioner Effective DIY learning requires...
Post-Production Instrumental Editing and Processing Options
This blog continues a series of blogs on Mixing (Page 2014). (MIDAS 2014) As a mix engineer I guess you will receive a tracking session at some point in which you will appraise the instrumental elements of the session as being in need of some work: perhaps some subtle work, or perhaps some extensive work. Options are available to do this by the...
Music Practitioner Part 1 – Beginnings
My earliest recollections of creative practice….. Due to the ill health of my mother and her need for many medical operations over an extended period, I lived in a very dark house for the first seven (7) years on my life. With the curtains and blinds drawn shut the majority of the time, and bedrooms doors closed, I...
Memory – Age 14
Reflecting, as to how things could have been…. I wonder sometimes how things could have been…. I wonder if I was born into a different family, what could have life been like? I did at different points find sanctuary in other families’ homes – particular neighbours, and a few relatives. I recall when ever I was in these...
Memory – Age 2
My earliest recollection The earliest recollections I have of my life are: I recall darkness and starkness of an empty house I recall the house had little to no natural light….. I recall being alone, and feeling scared most of those days…. I recall there were few if anyone in the house with me….. I have no...
Memory – Age 13
Moving from being a big fish in a little pond…… I had graduated from primary school, and I was now going to high school. The new high school I went to, drew from all the local smaller primary schools from surrounding districts, making the high school population four (4) to five (5) to six (6)...