A conversation with some of my best friends, Erik and Mark Anderson. We cover topics of music in academia, developing scenes, careers in music, and have an overall great time.Continue readingMusic In Mind #13 – A Conversation with Mark & Erik Anderson

This was an honestly fun conversation about a wide range of topics including music streaming, performance life, and flowstates Shih-Wei Wu’s Links Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shihweiwilliewu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shihweitaiko/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WillowWillie Anthony CaulkinsContinue readingMusic In Mind #12 – A Conversation with Shih-Wei Wu

This was an honestly fun conversation about a wide range of topics including literature, grammar, and whether or not we’d rather have Jesus. Max Perkins Links Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_maxwellhenry/ Brett Altman:Continue readingMusic In Mind #11 – A Conversation with Max Perkins and Alex Nelson

  Calyxa joins me for a conversation about the Long Beach music scene, academic music, and the life of a solo artist. Calyxa Links Bandcamp: https://calyxa.bandcamp.com/ Faceboock: https://www.facebook.com/CalyxaLB/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEutY5Y1WInPRoZgmkyr2fw

  Lizzy Erickson and Oliver Dobrian join me for a conversation about music, publishing, intellectual property, and life in general.

This episode offers a basic method for analyzing the music of Cecil Taylor. For a more comprehensive discussion of this type of analysis: https://anthonycaulkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/%E2%80%98MusicalGesture%E2%80%99inAnalysisGestureClassasaformalstructure.pdf

This episode discusses streams of discourse surrounding the music of Cecil Taylor and their implications. Link to full paper: https://anthonycaulkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ANewStreamAnthonyCaulkins.pdf

This episode discusses various ways in which music has been used to express and explore political statements and ideologies, drawing on examples from Beethoven to Rage Against The Machine.

In this episode, I discuss some of my thoughts regarding the movement towards creating interactive and artificially intelligent music systems. Videos Cited Cope, David. “David Cope Emmy Vivaldi.” YouTube, 12Continue readingMusic In Mind – Episode 5: Interactive Music Systems

In this episode, I go through some different techniques I use in Ableton Live to create natural but constantly shifting beats. I follow this up with a live performance ofContinue readingMusic In Mind – Episode 4: Beats By Probability