Essays Summoning Music and the Aesthetics of Responsibility: The Concept of Composition in the Generative AI Era
Podcast Commentary on This Article (AI Voice)The world of music production is at a historic turn...
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Music Reviews Capcom’s ‘Exed Exes’ – The Main BGM That Still Shines Brightly
AI Voice "Podcast Commentary on This Article"Following up on my previous article about '1942', ...
Music Reviews Capcom’s ‘1942’ BGM: An Enduring Memory of Retro Gaming
Back in the 1980s, as a child, I was completely immersed in the world of video games. I would fe...
Essays The Creative Spiral: The Dynamics of ‘Inadequacy’ and ‘Creative Space’
Podcast Commentary for This Article (AI Voice)It seems that many creators, myself included, are...
Music Reviews Rentaro Taki’s Piano Piece “Urami”: Insights from His Compositional Process
Rentaro Taki is a pivotal composer from the dawn of Western music in Japan, renowned for works l...
Book Reviews Review: “The Birth of Atonality” by Toshie Kakinuma
If you have learned the history of 20th-century music as a linear narrative in which Wagner's ex...
Cubase & Plugins How to Leverage Manuals for Cubase and Plugins with NotebookLM
What if you could be freed from the hassle of deciphering Cubase and plugin manuals, and instead...
Book Reviews Review: “Ellipse and Skeleton” by Kunihiko Yamashita
(Original posted on April 9, 2002)The book's subtitle is "The Conscious Mind of Tetsuya Komuro ×...
Essays Solar and Lunar Creativity: A Reflection on Lighting in the Creative Environment
"Podcast commentary on this article" by AI voice *JapaneseThe "color" of lighting that illumina...
Essays Empathy as a Happy Illusion: Reflecting on “The Memory Police” and Music
Podcast Commentary of This Article by AI VoiceI recently finished reading Yoko Ogawa's "The Mem...