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Recommended Reading
A lot of Music Tech courses teach you how to use the studio reasonably well, and how to edit your work using Cubase, Logic, ProTools, Ableton and other packages. Many will help you to develop your work in styles you have already worked in, or styles, genres and musical idioms familiar to your teacher/lecturer. However, you will find, sooner or later, that you want to explore a wider range of music and sonic art [that's being artistic with sound beyond what some music teachers call music!]. At this point, you may be scratching-around looking for ideas.
Sounds in Space : Sounds in Time is a marvellous book by Australian musician and lecturer Richard Vella. As well as looking at a huge range of musical style and genres, Vella also looks at how the music and sonic art interacts with the listener or audience. These include ideas for writing music for multi-channel systems in your listening room to writing for TV, films, theatre ... and lots of examples of other people's work to inspire you.
Vella gets you thinking about how you plan your music - this includes writing it down in new ways [not just the old five-line stave], thinking about how your music works for a purpose. This ranges from different ways of making sounds; ways to record, change, manipulate and organise sounds, right through to the ways that you [and other people] listen to music.
There's a CD of examples, which he uses to illustrate many of the ideas and methods he suggests.
