Beau Sorenson

wait until you hear that Pink Floyd album, it’s a good one

my most old-man-yells-at-cloud take is that i can't fucking stand the proliferation of the term "cheat code" in music production. IT'S NOT A FUCKING GAME! YOU CAN'T CHEAT AT SELF-EXPRESSION!
i hate the intersection of hustle culture and music production! it's only business to type-beat peddlers

please smack me down if I forget

Starting this Friday. Details at www.rhythmplex.com/event-direct...

“viral coffee hole”

Staring At The Cracked Window, by Kalia Vandever from the album Another View

kaliavandever.bandcamp.com/track/starin...

“You know how to make music with a piano and a TV?”

“Just keep clicking on stuff”

- our son describing my music making process exactly

Shoulda opted for the more expensive service....

The businesses that assist the jōhatsu are called yonige-ya, which means “fly-by-night shops”

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8D...

( thanks to @runpunk.bsky.social for the tip )

ah, thank you & my apologies!

your call is important to us!!!

swirling red, gold, black, violet and green abstract paper collage inset on a water-damaged textural background

ORNAMENTI D'ORO
CAMPO DE AGRAMANTE

a new album, released today! i'm so thrilled to share the album art now that it's out in the world! such a delight to work with my friend gus on the art for his latest project!

listen to the album on bandcamp:
mundiscos.bandcamp.com/album/campo-...

thank *you* for sharing!! did we meet during my time at smart!?!? i'm sorry if i'm completely spacing on that!!!

i am... as well as can be, considering... ( gestures around )

this + sometimes i see a picture of a squirrel that looks cute

abstract textured monochrome form

untitled abstract collage from july 2025’s zine, « THE HONOUR OF THE METAMORPHOSIS »

#zine #queerart #abstract #artsky #collage

zuck fumble

just came back to “Darkness”, excellent case study for plate reverb ( cc: @gse.bsky.social )

every day I wake up with one hundred perfect ideas lined up inside my head like shiny bottles of acid

Balance is over-rated in mixing.

It's okay to have an element be too loud. There can be a statement in that.

Some of my favorite music JUTS.

also avoids any kind of gear-fetishizing - there's probably nothing as 'uncool' in recording right now as a tape-based digital multitrack.

Lindsay Buckingham in his home studio in front of a Neotek console

"I'm still working off of an old Sony digital 48-track, reel-to-reel"

fantastic record that I am constantly prostelytizing for. there was an excellent Tape Op interview a while back where he talks about his studio and process - fairly humble considering his resources:

tapeop.com/interviews/1...

YouTube video by Lindsey Buckingham Lindsey Buckingham - On The Wrong Side (Official Audio)

obsessed with this one:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-IK...

Mike has been living with MS longer than Pro Tools | HD has been around. I’ve never known him ask for anything or even complain. However, he’s had a significant setback recently, and could use some help getting through rehab and back home again.

Please consider helping in any way that you can.

Mike hired me for my first internship at Smart Studios, and I use techniques and principles I learned from him on every session I work on. His philosophy towards audio work is ingrained in everything I do: respect for people & art, curiosity about the craft, an endless effort towards improvement.

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If you’ve spent time making music with / around me, you’ve heard me talk about how & where I got started in recording. Behind that start is a person named Mike Zirkel.

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The secret to making music that you love is to make it with people that love you

listening to autechre at the salon 👹

a cardinal rule of working in recording studios, often forgotten in this modern age: think VERY HARD before you tell the band you're working with "hey, this kinda sounds like Genesis"