For a long time, I’ve been familiar with Stanley Jordan’s music. When I was a teenager in the late ’90s, he was a major topic among guitarists and everyone was impressed by his unique tapping technique. As I’ve been exploring gems of 80s jazz fusion lately, I decided to revisit o…
Continue readingFinale has been more than just notation software to me—it’s been a faithful collaborator, a vault of my creative journey. And I know I’m not alone. For countless composers of my generation—especially those who studied in Brazil—Finale was where our sketches, dreams, and entire mu…
Continue readingI've been meaning to write about this for a while, but I was waiting for AI-things to settle down. Since they never will, here it is... I see many colleagues lamenting the fact AI can now generate music. For some, music is dead , and what we see now is the commodification of crea…
Continue readingI am a composer who has been recently experimenting with electronics, lighting and sound art, but among my various articles, I enjoy exploring all sorts of musical aesthetics. I will show here that pop music can also be rich in creativity, especially harmonically. Many classical …
Continue readingToday I would like to discuss the way our minds and body accommodate music and ingest/digest the vast ingredients of a musical experience. Yes, we do ‘eat’ or ‘drink’ music. Music is a dimension of abstractions (ideas, concepts, colours, rhythms) that flow into our minds and invo…
Continue readingCoots around Princes Park's island Hello everyone! Today I would like to express my frustration with a council project that is threatening to damage the beauty of free nature manifestation, a small island at Princes Park (Liverpool, UK) where birds can nest and rest. The project …
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Continue readingI recently revised a string quartet I wrote at the very beginning of my career, 18 years ago! It is a 3 movements quartet that was inspired by impressionism, when I was studying Debussy, Ravel, etc. It's simple, nothing innovative, but I like some of its harmonic ideas and it has…
Continue readingOn the 23rd of June 2022, I led a workshop with Prof Jacqueline Waldock at the Tate Liverpool called 'Imagined Soundscapes'. The idea was to respond to the Radical Landscapes exhibition that was currently taking place. The exhibition expressed British landscape art, mostly painti…
Continue readingI have recently worked on two interactive stage lighting design projects for concert music. Whereas stage lighting is well explored in popular music, it's still not very common in concert music. Of course, a light show must convey some meaning and adding flashing lights to concer…
Continue readingI recently learned about Orchestral Tools and their collections of virtual instruments and was amazed to hear the pristine quality of their samples. There are many new things in the mockup market, but it's still a challenge to make things sound realistic. Normally, if you are bui…
Continue readingHi spatial visitors! I'm reporting today the hassle I had when trying to record with the Roland CS-10EM microphone using the Tascam DR-40X PCM (WAV) recorder. Maybe this can be useful for someone who is on a similar quest. CS-10EM and Tascam DR40X For some years I had this amazin…
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