.HEADING 2 "Disclaimer: Why I'm Moving On from the Book"
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This book began as an experiment — a playground for ideas. It helped me organize my thoughts, explain things to a student, and engage with the foundational techniques of sound design and synthesis. More than anything, it gave me the space to reflect on what I actually want to pursue: the creation of novel synthesis methods through collaboration with engineers, mathematicians, and artists.
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What I care about is pushing boundaries: asking what new tools could exist, and how they could reshape composition. And for that, I need to move beyond documenting the past and present, and start building the future.
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This project was a process of refinement. I’m not abandoning a passion, I’m following it somewhere new.
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I think of IDM not as a style, but an approach to electronic music that presents experimental sound design and compositional techniques in the context of techno. This book frames sound synthesis methods and alternative tunings in the context of IDM in order to make these concepts practical and applicable for intermediate electronic music composers.
I think of IDM not as a style, but an approach to electronic music that presents experimental sound design and compositional techniques in the context of techno. This book frames sound synthesis methods and alternative tunings in the context of IDM in order to make these concepts practical and applicable for intermediate electronic music composers.
