Musical Curiosities

https://youtu.be/qnL40CbuodU

It's a damn hungover Sunday here.

Reading a Tape Op interview with Dave Cobb:

https://tapeop.com/interviews/122/dave-cobb/

kinda makes me wanna move to Nashville...

From Ethan Hein:

http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2017/four-bars-of-mozart-explains-everything-humans-like-in-music/

Nice mellow rainy Saturday after weeks of non-stop crazy.

catchin' up on my reading & tubes:

Bernie Grundman:

The legendary engineer details the mastering and vinyl cutting process

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/11/studio-science-bernie-grundman?linkId=45387607

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

slowed down X 100

https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/eine-kleine-stretchmusik

lil bit on the VCS3

https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-synth-that-made-the-music-10-artists-whose-sound-was-defined-by-the-ems-vcs3/

1950 article about Reeves studio (all Fairchild equipped) in NYC. Cool explanation on when they first started manually using variable pitch vs fixed pitch cutting for longer sides/no overcuts

http://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Unusual_Techniques_Sound_Recording_Dorf_1950.pdf

the taxonomy of early digital synthesizers:

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/826280-taxonomy-early-digital-synthesizers.html

oooh, now THAT is handy!

Couldn't get to sleep last night cuz of that thread.

Killer stuff

A COMPACT PRIMER ON DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING:

https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/

History of electronic music podcast:

http://www.triptreeproductions.co.uk/podcasts.html

Paul McCartney made an experimental Christmas mixtape for the Beatles in 1965:

http://www.factmag.com/2017/12/13/paul-mccartney-experimental-mixtape-unforgettable/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

This likely deserves it's own thread but until I get a chance to catch up-

Correlations Between Intense Emotional Experiences and Production Techniques in Build-up and Drop Sections of Electronic Dance Music

https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/article/download/451/457

Paul McCartney made an experimental Christmas mixtape for the Beatles in 1965:

everyone thinks that John was the experimenter, but everything cool that influenced them (except indian music) was discovered by Paul first... I guess when you write Maxwell's Silver Hammer people stop taking you so seriously, but even on tracks like Rain and Tomorrow Never knows Paulw as itnnovating while Jhn was just tellign Geoff Emmerrick eh wanted to sound like a Tibetan mystic on top of a mountain in the Himalayas...

Detroit Rock City

https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/extrafly/episodes/detroit-rock-city

THE STRANGE STORY OF SUN RA’S LOST DOO-WOP CHRISTMAS HIT:

https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-strange-story-of-sun-ras-lost-doo-wop-christmas-hit/amp/

YES!

enh?

United Recording Archives Classic John Lennon Demo Cassette-

A classic cassette demo from John Lennon was recently archived at United Recording by head archivist, Dan Johnson. Retrieved by Lennon's producer/engineer Jack Douglas, the cassette was recorded by Lennon in Bermuda before his comeback in 1980.

http://unitedrecordingstudios.com/united-recording-archives-classic-john-lennon-cassette