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  • On multitrack recording

    First tip: Don’t. (see this blog post) What is multitrack recording? What’s so difficult about that? My method FWIW Bearing in mind the thoughts in this blog post, the most likely reason for doing yet another one would be: to see what a new arrangement sounds like with real instruments. So, if I’m going to…

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  • What multitrack recording tells me about music (and life)

    TL;DR: Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time (far too much) putting together multitrack recordings, and I’ve come to realise that there’s almost no value in them other than a personal challenge. Enjoyment I’d like to define three classifications of musical enjoyment: Nearly one out of four I guess the multitrack experience just-about…

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  • William Tell in 2003

    Here’s one of my first ‘serious’ multitrack trombone quartet recordings. With reference to this blog post, I think the reasons I did it were: There are some others from the same era here As for the 4-movement Charpentier piece, the motivation was

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