HeyJaredThe Sixteenth
Where I write about music, movies, music in movies, music I've written, and other things.
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How to Write Music Part 3 - Ransack History for 600 Year Old Ideas (opens the original)
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My new album is out (go listen to it), and this is another article about how I went about writing it. The story so far is that I made some macro decisions. Medieval calendar, prog house; these seem like sensible things to stick on the same album. But how do I get from those concepts to writing yer actual record?Literally; I sit down at a keyboard, press some keys, and because I know how to play the piano, some notes come out that sound non-random. This moment is the one weird, magical, nothing-t
How to Release an Album part 1 - Mastering (opens the original)
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Last time I wrote, I’d got as far as telling you all that the deep house album I thought I was writing was actually a progressive house album, and that the album was coming out shortly. Well, the album is now out in real life. My artist website, www.thesixteenth.net, has links to lots of different places you can stream or (glory be) buy the album. The big picture below links through to Spotify as the most obvious place I think a lot of people will go. Go listen. It’s great, and I’m proud of it.
How to Write Music Part 2 - Making Decisions (opens the original)
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In my last piece, I wrote about how making some kind of structural decision up front was extremely helpful for getting my album written. Or indeed any piece of music. This week I’m going to walk you through the two biggest decisions and why I took them.The first one I already trailed last week, which was that the album is based around the Anglo-Saxon calendar. The name of the album, ‘Winters in the World’, is taken from a wonderful book by Eleanor Parker about the Anglo-Saxon year — its feasts,
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