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.