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The song ‘Play Dead’ was written by Björk, David Arnold and Jah Wobble for a 1993 crime based drama called ‘The Young Americans’ which was directed by Danny Cannon. ‘Play Dead’ is used over the opening credits of the film and builds the film’s atmosphere perfectly with Björk and producer David Arnold creating a song…

Throughout these 10 weeks I have been introduced to lots more music, as well as some genres I did not really knew existed before talking about them in class. I found it useful and noticed progression in my writing, research but most importantly I started to get used to referencing as it eventually became a…

This week we delved into more sub genres and a wide variety of electronic music such as industrial noise. While this wasn’t exactly ‘my thing’ I did really enjoy looking further into breakcore as it is a genre I had previously only discovered a few specific artists – leading me to misunderstand the meaning of…

While not strictly ‘ambient’ music, one of the most interesting things I read about within this chapter is how author David Toop writes about the artist Angus Maclise and his work within the Theatre of Eternal Music with La Monte Young, who was a pioneer of early minimalism and post-war avante garde music. “He belongs…

Whether I am listening to or creating music, the piece’s aesthetic is one of the factors that manifests itself instinctively as apposed to always being a deliberate thought. For me, it is impossible to create any kind of music without some of my own personality leaking through into the music’s aesthetic. While listening to music…

As I explored the vast Hakuna Kuala label, I struggled to find anything that I actually wanted to write about. I find that unfamiliar music can be somewhat difficult to relate to, which became more and more evident as I listened to increasingly abrasive, confrontational music. While I appreciated everything I heard there were only…

Put simply, workflow (in any creative discipline) is the process of creating, producing and developing your art. In a music production context this can be affected by factors such as genre, personal taste as well as access to specific software and hardware – as well as how you interact with them [1]. For me workflow…

The SP1200 was a hardware sampler and sequencer released in 1981, making it one of the earliest samplers released at a (somewhat) accessible price. By releasing a machine that was accessible to a much wider range of producers, SP1200 creator Dave Rossum almost single handedly pushed hip-hop in many new directions – and by extension…

This song features incredibly sparse instrumentation – featuring almost exclusively just guitar and voice. This was a very deliberate choice by the artist, by restricting the urge to add more complexity and layers Habel achieves a much more personal feeling that allows the listener to connect in a much more personal way when compared to…

0:00 Song begins in A sharp 0:41 synthesized “wee wee” sound 0:45 wind-like sound starts 4:04 chord change to A 4:08 return to A sharp 4:15 chord change to D 4:19 chord change to C (or C sharp, not sure) 4:23 return to A sharp 4:37 chord change to A 4:41 return to A sharp…