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 ...
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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 inste...
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 *JapaneseFor lighting a living space, severa...
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 M...
Essays Echoes of the Self and the Voice of the Other: A Dialogue on Composition with AI
Podcast Commentary on This Article (in Japanese)With the rapid proliferation of AI-driven com...
Essays Silence as the Fountainhead of Writing: Thoughts on BGM for Writing
When I sit down to write and face myself, I do not play music (BGM). I don't even wear earphon...
Essays Is Our Music Speaking “DAW Language”?
AI-Voiced "Podcast Commentary on This Article"The Blind Spot of the DAW as a Production Envir...
Book Reviews Review: “Musical Cognition” edited by Rita Aiello
(Original posted on April 10, 2002)This is a collection of research papers on the theme of mus...
Essays Deconstructing DAW Music Production with “A Story of a Garden”: Solitude, Contingency, and Coexistence with AI
Tsunehiro Uno's "A Story of a Garden" is a thought-provoking book that offers a new perspectiv...