Dear friends and family, I’m really looking forward to celebrating the holidays with you! I haven’t written to Santa in a long time, but I have one item on my list this year: I will gladly accept donations to organizations that advocate for equality, justice, and the rights of minority/oppressed/marginalized peoples. If you would like a recommendation for such an organization, please ask me! I’d love to share some of my favorites.

It has been called the single most important method of improving self-produced music, and yet I still find myself trying to go it alone, throwing EQs, compressors, exciters, limiters, and all means of digital audio mangling at each project, constantly aiming at the desirable sheen and weight of my favorite…

What is this? What follows is an outline of a proposed syllabus for a course exploring cultural and social aspects of electronic dance music (EDM). My intention is to create an evolving document with which I can articulate and explore my interests in this topic, adding resources and modules along the way and…