Essays on Music and Creativity — A Selection

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 tu...

A Further Look at Composition: Why is Empathy Through Music Possible?

(Originally posted on November 12, 1999)In a previous column, "Gazing at Composition," I attem...

Gazing at Composition: A Hypothetical Model for Understanding the Act of Composition

(Originally posted on October 21, 1999)The act of composition is often perceived, both by comp...

One of the Origins I Should Return To

(Originally posted on April 26, 2007)One of my favorite childhood pastimes was playing with LE...

Words Create Likenesses and Update Sensations

(Originally posted: March 30, 2026)When I try to put something into words, I do not feel that ...

On Depletion, Mastery, and Cultivating the Soil

When I finish a piece primarily using sampled materials, I sometimes feel a certain sense of d...

On Traces of Output, or the Self-Portrait of an OS

To those who know me in everyday life, I often seem to be perceived as a logical—or perhaps mo...

Instrument of Logic: The Primordial Landscape of MSX and MML

As a boy who loved making things, I was constantly struggling with the limitations of "materia...

Music and Words, the Creative Cycle: Like Building a Model Castle

"Podcast Commentary on This Article" by AI VoiceWhat motivates a creator of music to weave wor...

Is Our Music Speaking "DAW Language"?

AI-Voiced "Podcast Commentary on This Article"The Blind Spot of the DAW as a Production Envir...

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...

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