You’re Welcome.
The best band in the world today, bar none. I kid you not. Don’t forget to see their movie “Mad Tiger.” The best band in the world today, bar none. I kid you not. Don’t forget to see their movie … Continue reading You’re Welcome.
Author: marshallstak
Marshall Heiser Ph.D. is a multidisciplinary academic. He is also a classically-trained instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and a music technology developer- manufacturer. His publications explore such varied topics as sound in cinema; the interrelatedness of humour, play, and creativity theory; the music of Brian Wilson; and the phenomenology of record production. He has previously lectured and developed curricula at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University, Australia, as well as in the private sector. He has presented papers internationally on the topics of record production and pedagogy; as well as, creativity, humour, and play theory. His writing is published by Equinox (Sheffield, UK) and in the international Journal on the Art of Record Production. He has also acted as a co-editor for the acclaimed sound engineering text Mixing With Your Mind by AIR studios’ Mike Stavrou (2003). Marshall is currently working on a peer-reviewed popular music creative practice title: Making 'Popular Music: Power and Play' which he hopes to have released sometime in late 2019.
If you want flowers, think soil, manure, water, and sunlight: none of them look like flowers.
PART ONE: DURATION: 8:03. Don’t be put off by the cheesey video introduction or the word “mystic.” What you have here is simple wisdom about the process nature of life and the larger systems, the web of life, within which … Continue reading If you want flowers, think soil, manure, water, and sunlight: none of them look like flowers.
Freedom, Inspiration and Limitation: Hermes Trismegistus
The assertion that a playful sealing off of the ‘real world’ to create a confined psychological space conducive to great creativity and transformation has a precedent in Hellenic mythology: During Hellenic times an amalgamation of [the trickster god] Hermes and … Continue reading Freedom, Inspiration and Limitation: Hermes Trismegistus
The Beach Boys’ SMiLE: a complete chronological sessionography
In 2012, I published an article (Heiser, 2012) in the peer-reviewed online Journal on the Art of Record Production regarding Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys’ SMiLE project. It consisted of one half of a chapter (chapter 4) within my … Continue reading The Beach Boys’ SMiLE: a complete chronological sessionography
Conditionals for Pure Data: Interactive tutorial
Computer programs need to determine how to proceed at certain points in their program flow, depending on whether certain predetermined (or variable) conditions have been met or not. Such operations are a mainstay of computing and are known as a … Continue reading Conditionals for Pure Data: Interactive tutorial
Where did all the benevolent gatekeepers go?
I first became involved in the Australian independent music scene at the dawn of the 1990s. I was young, idealistic and full of passion to make music that challenged the status quo of the “normals” and bean-counters of the world. … Continue reading Where did all the benevolent gatekeepers go?
Godley and Creme: Playfulness, pastiche and the grotesque.
“We tend to treat the studio rather like a sort of sophisticated sandpit. So it’s just a place to play around in. Which is how we usually work. We get an idea, which might be a word or a lyric … Continue reading Godley and Creme: Playfulness, pastiche and the grotesque.
