Month: February 2022

World renowned pop singer Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas never fail to disappoint with the music they create. Eilish’s most recent album Happier Than Ever was recorded in Finneas’ home studio in Los Angeles, California. This electropop album was released in July of 2021. Happier Than Ever provides a different musical style for Billie… Continue reading Oxytocin – Billie Eilish

If there’s one thing you can always count on Pearl Jam to do, it’s their ability to completely alienate their fanbase’s expectations. With the exception of their first album, Ten, the band has always strived to create the weirdest, out-of-fashion, and radio-averse songs on subsequent albums. Themes dealing with love, greif, depression, and triumph all… Continue reading Pearl Jam’s Campfire Tune

While many of us take for granted the art of recording, and the numerous pieces of equipment and work that goes into it, it’s hard to think of a time when there was no way to record audio. This was changed on April 9th 1860, when Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the words first audio… Continue reading The 1st Sound

By: Cole Malone Movie trailers give the public the first glimpse and impressions of the upcoming movie, so its important to tell what the story will be about without completely spoiling the plot. Many trailers use narration and specific lines to build this anticipation for a movie, and tell a broad narrative of the overarching… Continue reading Audio as a Narrative in Movie Trailers

The presentation last week on Brian Eno and his work pioneering the usage of synths in music, as well as ambient music, made me think about why Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s scores always do a great job of telling story while not overwhelming the movie. My example is “Hand Covers Bruise,” a song from… Continue reading Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Noise

For anyone confused off the bat, what you just watched was someone do something called cardistry. Cardistry is the art of shuffling a deck of cards as aesthetically as possible and has only been around for a few decades at this point. Starting as just people expanding on card sleights done by magicians to show… Continue reading Tobias Levins Focus on the Sounds of Cardistry: Parker Mitchell

It is no secret that creatives in the film and tv industry rely on sound and song to propel their stories to their highest potential. Even “silent films” (a film absent of spoken dialogue) use instrumental music to uphold their melodramatic aims. Music and sound are significant factors in delivering the proper elements that construct… Continue reading Infrasonic Sound and Horror Movies

Liz Phair is an American singer-songwriter and indie rock trailblazer. She rose to prominance in 1993 with the release of her studio album, Exile in Guyville, which is currently ranked #56 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of all time. Before Exile in Guyville, Phair wrote music under the name Girly-Sound and self-released cassettes which… Continue reading Liz Phair: The Girly-Sound Tapes

Sports commentary is something that can turn a great moment into an iconic one. The sport that I follow very closely is soccer, and in a professional broadcast, some of the commentators are just as important to the game as the stars on the field. A famous goal is typically remembered for two reasons, the… Continue reading The beauty of commentators

One of my favorite musical tropes in today’s music-producing industry is the art of sampling. Taking one song or one subsection of a song, then expanding it to create an entirely new and unique piece of art is an impressive feat, and one that has led to the creation of some of my favorite songs… Continue reading The art of sampling – Drake’s “KMT”