I’m now on Substack 🎉

‘Music is always more than notes. It is made out of sounds. Confusing these two is not a small matter’.

Despite history being littered with predictions about the future that are spectacularly wrong, I threw in my two cents nonetheless on the topic of music and AI.

None of us are mono identities, whether we feel as if a particular ‘thing’ defines us or not.

Contrary to popular belief, Scotland has never been an exclusively Celtic nation, and has included Anglo-Saxons, Normans, and Scandinavians from its medieval beginnings.

This week, I’m looking at American post-hardcore trailblazers At the Drive-In, specifically their live shows from late 2000 to early 2001.

Creativity is about synthesising ideas, but synthesising ideas depends on having a universe of ideas to recombine in the first place.

The ‘input-output' mental model is a conceptual tool that can be used across all fields and is particularly effective in creative areas such as music composition and essay writing.

In writing and performing music, it is pertinent to reflect on what constitutes a good-sounding composition or a good-sounding performance.

Deciphering greatness in the arts is a surprisingly difficult and complex philosophical problem, which many aesthetes, philosophers and other thinkers have attempted to grapple with.