Too Much Music
Two music know-it-alls talk about making music in a world that already has too much music in it. This ex-husband-and-wife pair spout knowledge on all things music, including computational creativity, music production, human creativity, composition, songwriting, music business, music education, music-making culture, and machine learning/AI topics.
Podcasting since 2022 • 16 episodes
Too Much Music
Latest Episodes
The Creativity Rebellion: Escaping Big Tech’s Art Heist (Part 2)
Greg and Alison return to detonate the incendiary claim that ended Part 1: Can you make art without selling your soul to capitalism? They dissect the music industry’s machinery, Spotify’s frictionless decay, and the eerie rise of AI-generated c...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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37:10
The Attention Heist: How Big Tech Hijacked Our Brains (Part 1)
Greg and Alison dive headfirst into the toxic grip of big tech on creativity and mental autonomy. Sharing raw personal journeys from Alison’s early Facebook rebellion to Greg’s radical "de-Googling" in the mountains of New Hampshire, they disse...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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38:39
Linux In Your Music Studio? YES!
In this episode, our fearless hosts trace the evolution of digital audio tools from these academic, computationally intensive origins—where concepts like granular synthesis were offline processes—to the real-time, interactive software common to...
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1:11:31
Maintaining Creative Agency
This episode primarily explores the hosts' deliberate transition towards hardware-centric music creation methodologies, examining the motivations and practicalities of minimizing reliance on digital audio workstations. Key topics include the di...
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58:50
The Gear Honeymoon is Definitely Over
Feeling overwhelmed by endless gear options and digital distractions? In this episode Alison & Greg dissect how modern life impacts musical creativity. They tackle the seductive "gear honeymoon" – is it real inspiration or just a temporary ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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