Writing with the Speech-to-Song Illusion
Music researcher Diana Deutsch discovered a surprising illusion when listening to a snippet of speech over and over. Let's see how we can take advantage of this illusion to discover new melodies.
Experimental Techniques: Fun with Polymeter
Why choose between writing a song in 4/4 or 3/4 when you can do both at once? Let's experiment with polymeter!
Experimental Techniques: Composition by Subtraction
Composition by subtraction is an idea explored by Brian Eno: sculpt your song out of a mass of tracks, eliminating one track at a time.
Experimental Techniques: Invisible Layering
Let's look at a technique for discovering rhythmic and melodic counterpoint that you might never have written otherwise: invisible layering.