This Song Makes You Feel Good.
Counterclockwise Music . This Song Makes You Feel Good. When I listen to “Kokomo” by the Beach Boys, I’m instantly transported back to my ch...
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Hack Music Theory
Learn how to make great music that stands out, so you can get discovered! Taught by award-winning music lecturer Ray Harmony, and his protégé wife Kate Harmony. Ray has been teaching music t...
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Odd Time Signatures That Aren’t Odd.
Odd Time Signatures That Aren’t Odd . Rare Rhythms That Move People. American band Death Cab for Cutie recently released their new album “I...
Wanting Fans Is Not Wanting Validation.
Wanting Fans Is Not Wanting Validation . Music is social. No fans = No relationships. My previous essay, titled “Making Music Is Bad for Men...
Making Music Is Bad for Your Mental Health.
Making Music Is Bad for Your Mental Health . Songs need listeners, but most people are too busy scrolling nowadays. You’ve just finished a n...
Life in a ‘90s Grunge Band.
Life in a ‘90s Grunge Band. Comparing the music world of 1996 to 2026. It’s 9pm. Friday night. December 20th, 1996. Cape Town, South Africa....
Creating Calm Through Song Structure.
Creating Calm Through Song Structure . How to make a sonic sanctuary, like Tamikrest. My favourite Saharan rock band Tamikrest just released...
A Couplet a Day, Keeps Insanity Away.
A Couplet a Day , Keeps Insanity Away . Daily creative habits for better mental health. We’ve just moved. Again. For more than a decade now,...
Forget Meditation, Listen to Music.
Forget Meditation, Listen to Music . Meditating isn’t effective enough anymore. As people become more addicted to their phones, society’s ob...
Writers & Readers Against AI.
Writers & Readers Against AI . If you’re pro-human, join Paul Kingsnorth’s campaign. The brilliant English writer Paul Kingsnorth recently l...
AI Human vs Human AI.
AI Human vs Human AI . A brief history of transhuman music. Most AI-generated songs now sound more human than most human-made songs. How did...
Musical Heroes in the AI Age.
Musical Heroes in the AI Age . Nø Førmat! You need to know about this record label. Nø Førmat! is an independent record label based in Paris...
We Are the Orchid Children.
We Are the Orchid Children . A call to highly sensitive musicians. “Dandelion” children are those resilient and healthy kids who can survive...
The Music Theory of Fun.
The Music Theory of Fun . These two things make songs feel good… In my previous essay Who Killed the Fun, Fun, Fun? I told the story of how...
Who Killed the Fun, Fun, Fun?
Who Killed the Fun, Fun, Fun ? Music used to be our greatest joy, then this happened… 1964. Fun, Fun, Fun. That was a song on the album “Shu...
Musical Memoirs & Sonic Scrapbooks.
Musical Memoirs & Sonic Scrapbooks . How to find purpose, passion, and meaning in your life. Okay so what’s a musical memoir? Well, the Oxfo...
An Effortless New Year’s Resolution.
An Effortless New Year’s Resolution . One simple question that will change your future. New year’s resolutions don’t work. All the studies o...
The Best Music Is Behind Us. But That’s a Good Thing!
The Best Music Is Behind Us . But that’s a good thing! Here’s why… This essay began as a “Best Album of 2025” post, where I was going to sha...
The Geography of Musical Scales.
The Geography of Musical Scales . Finding peace in pentatonic places. It’s thought that pentatonic scales are the most ancient of all the mu...
Music is Mind Control.
Music is Mind Control . Lyrics are little Derren Brown’s in your brain. Do we have free will? That ancient question actually misses the poin...
This Is The Only Pure Music.
This Is The Only Pure Music . A celebration of non-classical absolute music. Music has united people for millennia, but nowadays it’s been w...