Last week, three researchers from the University of Cambridge published a paper in Nature Machine Intelligence, in which they used AI to analyze the musical idiosyncrasies of 20 legendary jazz pianists. Why? I’m still…
Indeed, but you can never leave. Messrs. Henley and Fry were on to something with that sublime turn of phrase in the little song inspired by goings-on inside the once-iconically pink hotel on Sunset Boulevard…
I was fortunate to have been taught sentence diagramming from an early age, not realizing at the time that music, another language I had just begun to explore, could be analyzed in a similar way…
This quote from 1979’s Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich continues with “…not when we are clean. Anyone will love us when we're clean. It makes you think the best way to hold on to…
It’s been another enjoyable week of guitar tracking here at the studio, with an eclectic mix of songs and cues going out to clients, both old and new. I feel fortunate to still be able…
The song didn’t come on the radio, I wasn’t playing it live at a gig, it didn’t even pop into my head during a morning walk; I just abruptly remembered that the song “Africa,” the…
I’ve been fortunate to work with several new recording clients over the past few weeks, each of whom has pushed me to be quite creative in the guitar tracking process. Often, I’m tasked with delivering…
The last two years have been the most inordinately productive of my professional life. Perhaps I’ve released too much music, but hopefully, it is more useful emancipated from my hard drive than imprisoned by it…
