#148: The Power of Focus
By participating in the #Jamuary2020 challenge to make and share a new piece of music each day, it's become extremely clear how important it is to find ways to focus while working. In this episode, I...
19 Jan 202016min
#147: Do It Even When You Don't Want To
You will inevitably come across days that you just don't feel like making music. The thing that differentiates a professional from an amateur is the amateur does it when he/she feels like it; the prof...
14 Jan 20209min
#146: Roger Linn- More Expressive Electronic Music
Roger Linn is a Grammy award winning electronic musical instrument designer, whose instruments have had a major influence on the music industry. He designed the first drum machine with samples. His MP...
8 Jan 20201h 22min
#145: How Will You Be Remembered?
Happy New Year! It's the start of a new decade and a perfect time to do a little self-reflection. In this episode, we talk about some big picture stuff and how it relates to our music making. Listen o...
3 Jan 202019min
#144: Are You Up To The Jamuary Challenge?!
Jamuary is a challenge to make a piece of music every day for the month of January, and to share it online. In this episode, I talk about the Jamuary Challenge, what it takes to participate (not much...
31 Dec 201911min
#143: Commit to Commit
Producing music is essentially a series of making decisions. It's important to make commitments to our decisions in order to move forward. In this episode, I argue that in order to move forward with ...
23 Dec 201921min
142: John Ivers: BandLab the Social Music Creation Platform
John Ivers is a composer, sound designer, and works as head of sound design for BandLab. BandLab is a free social music creation platform. John and I had a great conversation covering a range of topi...
20 Dec 20191h 51min
#141: Will Artificial Intelligence in the Music Industry Make Humans Obsolete?
Like it or not, artificial intelligence and machine learning is changing the music industry. It could threaten jobs and eliminate the need for humans in the music making process. So what can we do? Do...
5 Dec 201934min
