Music Theory

You don't jump straight into mastering. The path to becoming a mastering engineer starts with years in a recording studio as an intern, transitions through audio engineering, and only then moves to mastering. To succeed, you need critical listening, a perfectly tuned room, and hands-on experience with both analog hardware and digital processors. Most foundational of all: no reverb in the mastering chain. If you're ready to start from the bottom and dedicate yourself to the craft, then mastering

Baroque music feels distant to many young listeners. Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra of Toronto set out to change that by commissioning a team of researchers and game designers to create “TafelKids: The Quest for Arundo Donax”—a Flash-based game that teaches children about Baroque music conventions and history through playful interaction. This case study shows how the design team kept factual accuracy high and lecture-style content low, focusing instead on tempo, arrangement, and culture. The resul

What can a single song's journey into an Israeli Bat-Yam Mizrahi scene tell us about national narratives, immigration, and survival? In the 80s and 90s, underground music in this shore town was made by migrant and migrant-descendant Jewish Israelis systematically erased in hegemonic Zionist culture. Bringing arabesk — a genre itself rejected in Turkey — across borders, translation gave the pain of life there, there meaning.