Let's listen together: chapter 2
Round two: Walk off the Earth beyond the covers, a French summer song, the composers behind ARC Raiders, and a voice from the Swedish forest.
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Let’s listen to some music together
Let's listen to three tracks together: a Celtic-tinged string quartet, a maximalist Zedd song, and a patient, minimal build. Timestamps included.
What do we listen for in music?
Listening to music means listening for changes. How minimalism, even John Cage's 4′33″, can teach you to hear how much each change means.
We're rich in content but poor in concentration
We have more music than any generation before us, and we mostly use it as background noise. Four things I'm doing to listen properly again.
Restore Logic Pro X files corrupted by Google Drive
Google Drive can turn Logic Pro X projects into unreadable .pkgf files. Five steps that recovered mine, and two ways to stop it happening again.
Burn-in is for your brain, not your headphones
Audiophile folklore says new headphones need burning in. It's your brain that needs it. Here's how I test new headphones with loudness-matched A/B listening.
The Vampire Survivors soundtrack has no business being this good
A game that looks like a 1993 arcade cabinet comes with nearly 70 tracks of joyfully sincere orchestral music. Here are a dozen cues worth sampling.
AirPods Max vs. Sony WH-1000XM5: The definitive comparison
An unexpectedly close race between the two best wireless noise cancelling headphones on the market today
Bang & Olufsen H9i
A long-term review of the H9i and how they fit into the landscape of Bluetooth headphones with active noise cancelling.
Nope—an album of rejects
An album of rejected cues, sketches, demos, and other orphaned works from my musical catalogue
BeoPlay A1
Form & function meet again in Bang & Olufsen’s take on a portable Bluetooth speaker for the masses
Finding clients as a game/film music composer
A long answer to a Reddit question about how composers find game and film clients, and why no directory will do it for you.