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Possibly the world's only blog to take in improvisation/music composition and production/wine and winemaking/eating
I love making stuff, and I'm obsessed with trying to do it better. For my old blog 2010-2015 please visit www.tomhewson.wordpress.com
October 21, 2017
This post constitutes an attempt to bribe myself into writing more about music by devising a concept which involves drinking. There are a number of studies that show that music affects our perception of wine (see this article in Decanter Magazine), and there's certainl...
June 1, 2016
Welcome to my new blog. I'm planning to write from time to time on a few topics:
-improvisation
-writing music
-production and recorded sound
-growing grapes and making wine
-cooking and eating
Most of you will come here from a musical perspective and may be wondering about...
May 30, 2016
What makes a great cyclic riff? You know the kind - you can't stop playing it, singing it, dancing to it...it's addictive.I've taken three great examples and had a look at what makes them tick.
1. Q-Tip 'Gettin' Up' (sample of Black IvoryYou and I)
This is an interesting...
May 29, 2016
"sounds good.....maybe too good....?"
Here are two statements that paraphrase views about jazz recordings I've heard quite a lot over the years;
1) I just listen a lot more to the older jazz records - I like the sound of them
2) ECM records have too much reverb
These opini...
May 27, 2016
Grape varieties are a lot like musicians (stay with me). They have distinct characters which people like or dislike. Sometimes they're good in a band, sometimes they're solo artists. They can change their character simply by being put in a new environment. There are te...
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