The hip-hop icon released her last full-length album,The Cookbook, nearly two decades ago but time hasn’t diminished her influence at all. In fact, we’re all still catching up to the futuristic vision that Missy andTimbalandintroduced to the world in the late 1990s in thei...
How to make a lo-fi beat Making lo-fi beats is surprisingly simple—even if it relies on some slightly more complicated jazz theory. That’s because it’s sample-based. You don’t necessarily have to know how to play certain chords on the piano or guitar when you can just sample them...
Von Sternberg, born in 1852, came to the heights of his career during a period when composers such as Luigi Russolo and Edgard Varèse were producing futuristic music containing gurgles, explosions and electronic sounds. In the company of such experimentation, it's not difficult to imagine why ...
Even if our film is lucky enough to get bought, my chances of having my name on the film as a first-time screenwriter and industry outsider are still quite small. (I'd also want to make sure that I'm part of the Screenwriters Guild.) Fortunately, I learned this last lesson from Joh...
An in-depth history of the most important pop innovation of the last 20 years, from Cher’s “Believe” to Kanye West to Migos
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However, having spent many years in the writing world now, I do think you can take Blake Snyder's fifteen beats a bit further. I've spent a long time developingThe Write Structureto do this, and while writing a feature film has its differences when it comes to certain details, like for...