https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tags/techniques/composition/Latest entries for the tag CompositionenFri, 22 Sep 2023 15:46:05 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loraine-james-gentle-confrontation-and-forward-motion/Loraine James gets restless when she makes music. “Sometimes I get this spark. With an album I like to dedicate a few months to writing it and then move on. I don't like things sitting.” Perhaps this is why she’s been so active lately. The London producer has released three…Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:46:05 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loraine-james-gentle-confrontation-and-forward-motion/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-session-see-wayne-snow-in-songwriting-mode/Wayne Snow’s studio sessions are physical, expressive, and often a lot of fun. When he’s in songwriting mode, he deploys acting techniques to explore and recall his experiences, and teams up with a producer to resurface them into creative energy for his music. In March 2023, he and producer Golo…Thu, 17 Aug 2023 09:09:40 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-session-see-wayne-snow-in-songwriting-mode/ArtistsLoopVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/water-from-your-eyes-microtonal-indie-pop/“Life is horribly dark right now. And yet, it is not unfunny.” Finding humor in fatalism is the ethos behind offbeat indie-pop band Water from Your Eyes. Comprising Rachel Brown and Nate Amos, the duo began collaborating in 2016 having found common ground in the serene yet somber sounds of…Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:11:17 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/water-from-your-eyes-microtonal-indie-pop/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sound-the-alarm-data-sonification-as-a-tool-for-climate-action/Using sound as a warning is nothing new: fire alarms, school bells and car horns all notify us to pay attention to our immediate surroundings. Some give us small insights, like the bleep of a scanned barcode or the ping of a smartphone – but there are more serious matters…Thu, 13 Apr 2023 08:30:26 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sound-the-alarm-data-sonification-as-a-tool-for-climate-action/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/word-music-composing-using-text-scores-with-maya-shenfeld/Whether you’re an electronic producer, a pop musician or a classical composer, you likely have at some point found yourself feeling hemmed in by the impression that there are some intangible rules that music-makers must follow. We might feel that we should try and fit into a certain role; that…Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:03:23 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/word-music-composing-using-text-scores-with-maya-shenfeld/ArtistsLoopVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-session-catch-wayne-snow-streaming-live-from-the-studio/Each Loop Session invites you to spend a few hours in the virtual company of an artist to learn about their work and ideas. For the next session on March 4, we’re visiting singer and songwriter Wayne Snow for a studio session where he’ll walk you through the process of…Thu, 09 Feb 2023 11:50:58 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-session-catch-wayne-snow-streaming-live-from-the-studio/Loophttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/marina-herlop-voice-and-piano-extended-to-infinity/Marina Herlop is on a path of discovering the infinite possibilities that extend out from a foundation of piano and vocals. On her most recent album, Pripyat, the classically trained Catalan composer chops and layers her voice many times over, filling out her compositions with elaborate harmonies and spiky electronics,…Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:41:22 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/marina-herlop-voice-and-piano-extended-to-infinity/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ropes-fields-and-waves-celia-hollander-sculpts-time-with-sound/Ascending the tall, narrow stairs of Celia Hollander’s apartment in Los Angeles’ Highland Park neighborhood feels like entering a cloud where the fragrance of citrus blossoms mingle with the morning’s coffee brew. Her compact, modular studio accentuates a desire for functional flexibility, a setting that bends to sound’s calling. Scattered…Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:38:23 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ropes-fields-and-waves-celia-hollander-sculpts-time-with-sound/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/james-krivchenia-big-thief-drummer-samples-youtube-for-blood-karaoke/James Krivchenia has certainly achieved a unique perspective across his career as a drummer, producer and engineer. He’s attained a rare fluidity whether acting as producer for experimental artists such as Mega Bog, crafting computer-based music on his own, sitting as a session musician for megastars like Taylor Swift or…Fri, 03 Jun 2022 11:58:31 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/james-krivchenia-big-thief-drummer-samples-youtube-for-blood-karaoke/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tijn-wybenga-a-composer-runs-amok/Like many cities, Amsterdam has been struggling to retain spaces where grassroots music can develop. Fortunately, there are a number of repurposed industrial buildings in the outskirts that are picking up the slack. Places like old car repair garages or the pink-painted gas station Roze Tanker are bearing many fruits…Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:55:53 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tijn-wybenga-a-composer-runs-amok/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kmru-spaces/Is the music we make necessarily informed by where we’re born and raised? Or is it largely determined by where we go from there? Or maybe where we are right now is the only place that matters? These and related questions are at the heart of our new artist documentary…Thu, 04 Nov 2021 13:37:48 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kmru-spaces/ArtistsDownloadsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/take-chance-producing-probability-live-11/When singer, composer and producer Mica Levi was tasked with creating the soundtrack for Jonathan Glazer’s alien femme fatale flick Under the Skin, she looked to John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen for some ideas on how to evoke the sound of a living, growing, unknown organism. “[it’s] supposed to be…Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:41:24 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/take-chance-producing-probability-live-11/ArtistsTutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ground-watch-tracks-being-built-our-new-series-made-ableton-live/The limitless possibilities at the start of a new project can make it hard to know where to focus your inspiration. With that in mind, the new Made In Ableton Live video series follows nine artists as they take a track from conception to completion. Every step of the way,…Thu, 04 Jun 2020 10:08:52 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ground-watch-tracks-being-built-our-new-series-made-ableton-live/ArtistsNewsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/anna-meredith-composing-beyond-convention/Photo Credit: Gem Harris At Loop 2016 composer, producer, and performer Anna Meredith joined Ableton’s Dennis DeSantis for a discussion on her innovative approaches to contemporary composition and recent forays into electronic music. Revealing the creative processes behind her track ‘Shill’, Meredith walks us through her system of sketching shapes…Fri, 14 Aug 2020 10:09:33 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/anna-meredith-composing-beyond-convention/ArtistsLoopVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/hana-creative-crowdsourcing/Photo credit: Jasmine Safaeian For her latest album, HANADRIEL, gamer, artist, producer and streamer HANA live-streamed her entire creative process on Twitch over four weeks of what were mostly 13+ hour days working in her home studio. This highly curated and expertly executed project was positioned at an intersection where…Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:59:12 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/hana-creative-crowdsourcing/Artists