Essays Trying Out the Jew’s Harp
(Originally posted on July 8, 2006)Encouraged by my recent experience with a "Kalimba Assembly K...
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Essays Excellent Websites for Beginners to Learn Orchestration
For those who want to use authentic orchestral sounds with software instruments but don't know t...
Essays Thoughts on a Binding Spell
(Original posted on October 22, 1999)If there was one "binding spell" that often troubled me whe...
Essays The Mental State During Composition
(Original posted on June 26, 2009)This text is an attempt to describe the mental state of my cre...
Essays Orchestration in a Digital Environment
(Originally posted on December 10, 2008)Orchestration, by definition, is the set of empirical ru...
Essays Thoughts on Overhauling My PC and Sequencer (DAW)
*Introduction & DisclaimerThe following text was originally published on November 10, 2007. The ...
Essays 2009 Edition: Orchestral Sequencing Memo (Archive)
*Foreword & DisclaimerThe content of this article is from the year 2009.This is published as a "...
Essays Where Music is Born and Nurtured
(Original posted on January 8, 2009)I found an interesting article on the Asahi Shimbun website....
Essays In an Environment of Limited Elements and Materials
(Original posted on July 1, 2006)The other day, I bought an "assembly kit" for a kalimba, an Afr...
Essays Savoring “Shiru wo Tanoshimu” (Enjoying Knowing)
(Original posted on March 29, 2007)I watched the NHK program "Shiru wo Tanoshimu" that I had rec...