Explore the Music
Greetings! I’ve been uploading select samples of music I’ve recorded or collaborated on since this blog’s inception. Explore all posts tagged with audio uploads.
Music, Art & Engineering
Greetings! I’ve been uploading select samples of music I’ve recorded or collaborated on since this blog’s inception. Explore all posts tagged with audio uploads.
New track exploring EDM production techniques. Recently reading a critical review and technical analysis of an audio amplifier by a blogger I enjoy, the author mentioned the classic phrase, Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt — a propaganda tactic and sales technique pervasive in multiple industries, including audiophile equipment marketing. It’s a psychological exploit often effective in … Continue reading Fear, Doubt & Uncertainty
It’s not until you schedule an intentional “digital detox” that you’ll see how much compulsive behavior punctuates your life and how much willpower it will take to permanently change it.
You know the old saying, “the right tools for the job…”
Has mastering become an overloaded term in audio production? What is it and where is it going?
Music produced in January 2024. Graceful degradation is a computer science term describing system designs that maintain essential or mission-critical functionality when significant components are rendered inoperative.
New track by Vacations In Color reflecting on hedonic adaptation and the law of diminishing marginal utility. Produced after being bed-ridden for a week over the holidays and just getting my voice back. How much is enough?
Originally written in 2020 during the pandemic lock-down, this song reflects on nirodha, or the overcoming of suffering by letting go of taṇhā (desire, attachment.)
Bizarre Bazaar is a collaboration with my friend and former Vibraflux band mate, Mino Fukushima.
Music written, performed and produced by Ernie Gray for the project, “Vacations In Color” between 2021-2023.
It’s difficult to appreciate now, but from an audio production standpoint, almost everything about “The Joshua Tree” was antithetical to the prevailing norms of 1987.
What is the relationship between maximizing loudness, psychoacoustics and perceptual lossy compression? Does loudness maximization affect the quality of streaming audio?
Comparing AI models to human creative processes, considering why people like certain styles of music, and how lateral thinking tools can help us create more original music.
Perhaps the most important bias in our tone is the cognitive one.
The single by Drop Dead Sunset
“If we studied any other creature in nature and found the record of intra-species violence that human beings have, we would be repulsed by it. We’d view it as a great perversion of natural law – but we wouldn’t deny it.”
— Gavin De Becker