Sound Foundations offers a holistic and personalized introduction to music technology, songwriting, and entrepreneurship. With a wide variety of prompts, activities, written exercises, and idea-generating sections, this workbook provides quick and accessible entry points into different topics and concepts that form the bedrock of commercial music study. Using highly accessible language, Josh Ottum provide a scaffolding that allows users to take ownership over technological options and creative processes unique to their own aesthetics. The book contains uniquely curated aspects of the following: Basic audio technologyBasics of songwritingSynthesisLive soundRecording toolsMusic business
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Josh Ottum is professor of commercial music at Bakersfield College. He holds an MFA in integrated composition improvisation and technology from UC Irvine and a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary arts from Ohio University. As a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer, he has released several records, toured throughout Europe and the United States, and has music featured in multiple television and radio programs.