Everything Is a Remix: Making Music by the Creative Manipulation of Samples

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In this episode of his music production workshop series, musician and sound engineer Zsolt Török invites you to discuss and explore how sampling became a creative tool in its own right, and get hands on with the sample based devices and workflows available in Ableton Live. What does avant-garde composer Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrète from…

$60.00

From Thought to Page: A Historical Exploration and Workshop on Composition

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Join the Juilliard musicians/composers Daniel Hass and Jameel Martin—and self-discovered composer Ulkar Aghayeva—for a discussion about the joy and challenge of writing music. If you are interested in music and writing more broadly—and how they connect—follow the rest of the Words and Sounds series. “Composing is a difficult business. “Desperately difficult,” says the devil in…

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Evolution of human musicality: music as a transformative technology of the mind

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Join Ani Patel, a neuroscientist whose work focuses on music cognition, music-language relations, rhythmic processing, and cross-species studies of music cognition. His book, Music, Language, and the Brain, challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. Hosts of the Words and Sounds series will lead a discussion and Q&A with Dr. Patel,…

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Say It in Song: Writing Beats and Melodies

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In this episode of his music production workshop series, musician and sound engineer Zsolt Török invites you to learn how to apply fundamental music theory concepts and compositional techniques in your own music. Talking about music theory might conjure up the image of European classical composers wearing powdered wigs, which is understandable given the disproportionate…

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What Makes You Make?

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Come explore the hows and whys of creativity with artist and writer, Anne Ross (@annerossart). All people are creative, but what makes a few of us actually create? What makes you pick up that guitar, or paint brush, or empty page? Do we need to cross this threshold only once? Do we have to wait…

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Genre-Focused Workshop #2: 2000s Hip Hop and R&B

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In this episode of his music production workshop series, musician and sound engineer Zsolt Török invites you to explore and recreate the sound of hip hop and R&B producers from the 2000s such as Timbaland and The Neptunes. The genre-focused workshop salons differ from the previous episodes of this series, in that they build upon…

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