Month: September 2021

The Who is a British rock band made up of Pete Townshend, Rodger Daltrey, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon. They endured a lot of success in the 60s and 70s and are known for their unruly behavior and high energy. A majority of their songs focus on teenage struggles through rhythm and blues, and rock… Continue reading Baba O’Riley – The Who

Andre Nickatina utilizes lots of stereo effects, ambient found sounds, and off-kilter, distant melodies in this eerie rap track. The instrumental is comprised of layers of hazy sounds in each channel. The core “melodies” are defeated sounding and never resolve, just coming up and down. Around this are chimes and disembodied vocal chops scratched by… Continue reading Andre Nickatina – Train With No Love

The theme for the hit TV Sitcom Seinfeld was created by composer Jonathan Wolff. Wolff has created music for over 75 other television series, like Will & Grace, but nothing sticks to our minds quite like our beloved Seinfeld melody. Seinfeld ran from 1989 to 1998, and it’s theme song is very unique for the… Continue reading Seinfeld Theme

If you are a college football fan, chances are you are very familiar with this tune. It is the intro to the SEC on CBS, a 3:30 game every Saturday during college football season between two teams from the most superior conference in the country. Right out of the gate this song comes out with… Continue reading SEC on CBS Theme Song

Caroline Polachek is a current pop artist and this song comes off her third album “Pang”. On this album, she collaborated with other PC music producers, which gives the songs a very layered arrangement of sounds and beats. This song is a great example of simple audio techniques to achieve a full, interesting composition. The… Continue reading Hit Me Where it Hurts– Caroline Polachek

Remastering is an incredibly common practice nowadays. Anything that was produced on analog technology such as cassette, vinyl, or CD had to be digitally remastered in order to stream, or be used by digital audio technologies. This increases resolution, and makes the audio less susceptible to quality loss over copies. In order to provide some… Continue reading Remastering, using Daniel Johnston

Beastie Boys were a hip hop group from New York City composed of Mike D, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz. Sabotage is a song by the Beastie Boys also produced by Mario Caldato Jr. from the album III Communication that came out in the early 90s that was the last song on the album to be finished. The… Continue reading Beastie Boys- Sabotage

John Cage was a highly regarded avant-garde composer of the mid-20th century. In many ways he was an innovator and presaged musical trends, although it may not have been obvious at the time. He experimented with compositional methods that sometimes included found sounds, compositions that included such things as detuned radios and alternate musical notation.… Continue reading John Cage Williams Mix

This episode, “Choose The Shoes”, of Real Ass Affirmations is from a collection of podcasts aimed at empowering others and giving them the power to empower themselves. However, this episode highlights some poor audio symptoms. First, there is a noticeable contrast in audio quality between the commercial advertisements in the beginning of the episode and… Continue reading Real A** Affirmations

Jaden Smith has released “The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story” in the fall of 2018. A separate project from his then current SYRE album series. This tape stood out to me because it is under shadowed by his larger projects and features a more experimental sound compared to previous work. On this tape, Jaden… Continue reading Distant – Jaden