Musicians in the Making: Pathways to Creative Performance



2017 | ISBN-10: 0199346674 | 408 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Musicians are continually 'in the making', tapping into their own creative resources while deriving inspiration from teachers, friends, family members and listeners. Amateur and professional performers alike tend not to follow fixed routes in developing a creative voice: instead, their artistic journeys are personal, often without foreseeable goals. The imperative to assess and reassess one's musical knowledge, understanding and aspirations is nevertheless a central feature of life as a performer.

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Ask Video Dance Music Sound Design 306 SFX Advanced



ilfsn | 1.5 Hours | 344MB

From epic impacts to white noise sweeps, sound effects are an essential part of any EDM track. Expand your synthesis techniques with these advanced FX sound design tutorials by our dance music expert, Multiplier!

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Ask Video Symphony Essentials 101 Symphony Essentials Explored TUTORiAL



SYNTHiC4TE | March 15 2018 | 136 MB

With its meticulously sampled instruments, NI’s Symphony Essentials lets you create authentic-sounding MIDI orchestral scores. Join trainer Matt Vanacoro in this 20-tutorial course, and see how this amazing Kontakt library can help you compose epic soundtracks!

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Ask Video AudioPedia 109 MIDI TUTORiAL



SYNTHiC4TE | March 15 2018 | 184 MB

The NLE AudioPedia series, our video-based audio encyclopedia, is an invaluable resource for sound engineers, musicians, students, educators and all audio enthusiasts. This ninth installment is about MIDI terminology.

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Academy.fm - Producing Riddim in Ableton Live With Zetta



MP4 | 1.79 GB

In todays video, Zetta creates a Riddim track from scratch in Ableton Live 10. Follow along to learn arrangement and sound design tricks to take your track to the next level!

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Making Waves: Traveling Musics in Hawaii, Asia, and the Pacific



U of Hawaii | English | 2018 | ISBN-10: 0824873769 | 228 pages | 11 MB

Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes), satellite broadcasting, digital downloads, and streaming.

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Pierre Boulez and the Piano : A Study in Style and Technique



English | 2017 | ISBN: 0754653196 | 365 Pages | PDF | 10 MB

Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical avant-garde during the 1950s. His most recent published work is a solo piano piece, Une page d'ephemeride, written some sixty years after his first attempts at composition. The piano has remained central to Boulez's creative work throughout his career, and although his renown as a conductor has to some extent overshadowed his other achievements, it was as a performer of his own piano music that his practical gifts first found expression.

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Academy.FM - 3 Creative Techniques for the Vocodex in FL Studio



MP4 | 68.94 MB

Image-Line’s Vocodex is an insanely powerful vocoder plugin that comes stock in FL Studio. Proper use of this plugin can help you achieve that classic, “Daft Punk”, robotic voice on your vocals, as well as give you interesting tones and layers on your sounds.

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Lynda Adobe Audition Mixing Music and Dialog TUTORiAL



P2P | 13 March 2018 | 1 GB

Do you find mixing music and dialog a frustrating process? Have you ever found yourself constantly turning up your dialog to compete with an overpowering music track? Have you ever struggled to find a music track that perfectly matches the duration of your edit? Adobe Audition: Mixing Music and Dialog is for video professionals who want to take their audio mixes to the next level. Video editor and teacher Paul Murphy demonstrates how to create a music and dialog mix that sounds clear, professional, and sonically pleasing. While demonstrated in Premiere Pro and Audition CC, the techniques shown can be applied to any video- or sound-editing application.

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Mad Skills MIDI and Music Technology in the Twentieth Century by Ryan Diduck



English | 2018 | ASIN: B079G42CDC, ISBN: 1910924768 | 199 Pages | 5 MB

A history of electronic music that goes way beyond the Moog

Part rigorous history, part insightful commentary, and part memoir, Mad Skills tells the story behind MIDI, aka the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, through the twentieth century's kaleidoscopic lens.

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Academy.fm - Beginner’s Guide to Compression in FL Studio



MP4| 196 MB

The concept of compression is one of the most important things in music production. It is a crucial part of mixing, mastering, and designing your sounds exactly how you envision them. For many beginners, however, it can be a tricky idea to grasp.

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Academy.fm - Beginner’s Guide to Parametric EQ in FL Studio



MP4| 140 MB

Knowing how your EQ works and understanding when to use it is one of the first things every producer should learn. Equalization is an extremely important part of production that will elevate your sounds and mixdowns if you use it appropriately.

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Ask Video Serum 201 Wavetable Design



ilfsn | Released: Mar 9th, 2018 | 175MB

With its built-in editor, Xfer Records Serum allows you to import and edit your own custom wavetables. Learn everything about this advanced technique in this info-packed course by Multiplier!

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Composing Processes and Artistic Agency: Tacit Knowledge in Composing



2017 | ISBN: 113821549X | English | 168 pages | PDF | 13 MB

This monograph carries out an in-depth investigation into compositional processes, shedding new light on the components and conditions that constitute artistic agency. Artistic agency relies on the interlocking of such activities that emerge from various propositional and non-propositional (experiential, corporeal, sensory) forms of knowledge - listening, feeling, imagining, trying out, reflecting, noting and correcting, which represents a small selection of the multifaceted composing activities. The book develops an understanding of artistic agency and mastery in its fundamentally social nature, through the important, though largely ignored output of creative compositional processes.

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Links update: 03/05/2020

In recent years, there has been something of an explosion in the performance of live music to silent films. There is a wide range of films with live and new scores that run from the historically accurate orchestral scores to contemporary sounds by groups such as Pet Shop Boys or by experimental composers and gothic heavy metal bands. It is no exaggeration to claim that music constitutes a bridge between the old silent film and the modern audience; music is also a channel for non-scholarly audiences to gain an appreciation of silent films. Music has become a means both for musicians and audiences to understand this bygone film art anew. This book is the first of its kind in that it aims to bring together writings and interviews to delineate the culture of providing music for silent films. It not only has the character of a scholarly work but is also something of a manual in that it discusses how to make music for silent films.

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