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Musicking Manifesto: Negotiating Universality and Specificity Within a Practice Scope
I. Introduction Music theorists often find themselves navigating a delicate balance: between identifying overarching...
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It's all about the balance - right?
-10.27.2024- On Norman, “Emotion & Design: Attractive things work better.” Aesthetics vs. function, durability vs. lightness, artistic...
Tim Xiaotian Fan
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Excerpt From Mix Against a Preoccupied Notion
-10.22.2024- What makes mixing so difficult? The answer could be the complications of the signal chain, the details in tweaking...
Tim Xiaotian Fan
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A Peek Into The Dream Kingdom - On Gaye Su Akyol Performance
-10.01.2024- It is difficult for me, as well as for many, to distinguish if studying the music before a concert would be conducive to...
Tim Xiaotian Fan
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On The Balance of Musicking - What is a GOOD mix?
-09.05.2024- It is often said that we first discern, and then we improve. Good vs. bad, lurking in this simplistic balance is the grey...
Tim Xiaotian Fan
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Mixing Engineer - A Conductor Behind the Curtain?
-08.26.2024- Today is the first day of my college life. Maybe it is because I was encouraged to (or actually reminded of) keep...
Tim Xiaotian Fan
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Should Have (.ft Claude-3-Opus)
-Written on 02.07.2024, Format and spelling corrected on 03.17.2024 with aid from Claude-3-Opus- [Verse 1] Oh dear, we've been through...
Tim Xiaotian Fan
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Question Box: 2024.1-2024.2
-03.15.2024- I like answering questions. Sometimes people who don't know me may assume I am a person of reticence (which is evidently not...
Tim Xiaotian Fan
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Nodame et Chiaki
-02.15.2024- "No, you can never catch up with him nor catch music - If you don't face music properly." ---- Franz Von Stresemann, In...
Tim Xiaotian Fan
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Picking Up
-02.04.2024- Yesterday night, or technically this morning at about 4 am, I was planning to record the last projected piece for my first...
Tim Xiaotian Fan
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"Distance"
-01.29.2024- Although the first tedious post I made here is unlike many of the archived ones, which was basically day-to-day rap-up of a...
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