Orchestration research paper – early release version What is orchestration? In the last year I dove into orchestration and what this means in different context. I dedicated different podcast episodes to what people do when they say they are orchestrating. I did research on academic papers, a survey, interviews with experts in the field and […]
Audio Postcard. And we’re back! After a reflective summer break, The Power of Music Thinking returns with a special episode that is both a journey for the senses and a look into the future. I’ve just returned from a trip to Japan, a place of profound contrasts, where ancient traditions coexist with futuristic cityscapes. Instead […]
Audio postcard from Japan. I am just back from my trip, and instead of sending conventional postcards – or as a contemporary variation – sending pictures via socials, I made audio recordings with a small Zoom device. Here, as an alternative, I am sending audio postcards to you. As I am going to all the […]
This is a personal story about my first online interview at the end of the 1990s. It is a trip back in time with original sound snippets from the interview with famous conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim in the Opéra Royale at Versailles. Find out how we did this technically and what questions the maestro […]
This is my epiphany story for 2025, January 6th. Tip: For an enhanced experience, listen to the sound while reading the story slowly. Epiphany Story 2025 It was hot. Maybe the hottest day in July. Far above 30 degrees Celsius. I have my recording equipment with me and hold the stereo microphone in my right […]
This year’s epiphany story is about a shaky business The trip It was the first Thursday in November; I was driving through the storm with my wife. What should have been a one-hour cruise with our silent electric car was a shaky business accompanied by abrupt, more or less heavy blasts of wind. Our metal […]
Welcome to the Rewind 2023 of The Power of Music Thinking podcast, where I have conversations with extraordinary people from all over the world who are also musicians or use music in the broadest sense of the word to learn, teach, inspire and collaborate meaningfully. This year, we had 15 episodes, and virtually, we travelled […]
The shorthand of Music Thinking is: Listen, Tune, Play and Perform. I call it the Music Thinking Mantra. You can do this over and over again – well, like a mantra. Wear the Music Thinking Mantra on a T-shirt Show that you are music thinking and wear the Mantra on your T-shirt as a statement, […]
Is there a connection between a podcast and a symphony? Well, if you want, there is. Let’s rephrase that question: what is the ideal length of a podcast episode? And, the answer is: more or less the length of a symphony. Let me explain. The term symphony comes from a Greek word meaning “A sounding […]
We ‘talked’ with OpenAI ChatGPT and asked them a few questions. The pictures are generated with DALL-E and the instruction: a musician and a business person interacting nicely together in a painting in the style of Van Gogh, David Hockney, Salvador Dalí, and Jackson Pollock. Here is a copy of the chat window, including the […]