The Journey from Film Scoring to AI and Music: A Conversation with Sherene Strausberg – Part 1 “I can go back to when I was sixteen, and I was at a movie theater and I was watching a really great scene in a movie where the violinist was, like, moving his bows, you know, […]
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Musical Alchemy: An Interview with Eric Singer – Part 2
“One of the wonderful things about music is that it’s by and large pretty universal, you know, when almost any culture will perceive a minor chord as something that feels sad. Even my 4-year-old son can identify that as ‘oh that’s sad.’ But there are more subtleties too, you know, and that may affect instrument […]
Musical Alchemy: An Interview with Eric Singer – Part 1
“There are generally two things that I want to focus on when presenting the creative to a client. First, and I think the most important, is the why: what is the justification for why we have done this or why we’ve included this instrument, why we’re including this long breakdown section, why this tempo, whatever […]
Singing Blobs and Electric Melodies
Machine learning has helped shape just about every aspect of our digital lives, whether it’s deciding which Netflix show or YouTube video to recommend to us or even teaching cars to drive themselves. One of the most innovative uses for machine learning, however, is in creating music. Just recently Google released Blob Opera, a machine […]
Changing the Shape of Music
Music can have a powerful effect on our feelings, our behavior, even how we see the world around us. But what if music itself can react to our feelings? Weav Run, an award-winning workout app that instantaneously adjusts a song’s tempo to match the listener’s own pace, offers just one example of the fascinating potential […]
Interview with Creative Director & Composer, Nick Crane- Part 1
Nick Crane has been making music since he was 8 and making movies since he was 11. In 2019, he launched Racket Club- a boutique music production studio. Nick’s had the pleasure of working with Nike, Verizon, Ford, and others. Racket Club also creates scores for short films and his most recent score released in […]