title: Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic
author:  Curtis Roads 
description: <br>"Clearly formulated starting points engage the reader in more challenging concepts and interesting lines of enquiry, contextualising the many perspectives surrounding each topic. This well researched treasure chest of quotes, references, and examples illustrates an insightful text which the author, himself with decades of experience as a transcontinental practitioner, has enriched with personal reflections that in turn allow the reader to do the same."-Natasha Barrett <br>
zlib_text: Making Music
  74 Creative Strategies for
  Electronic Music Producers
  Dennis DeSantis
  
  For Alison and Cecilia, who inspire everything I do.
  
  Preface
  What is this book?
  For many artists, nothing inspires more existential terror than
  actually making art. The fear that we’re not good enough or that
  we don’t know enough results in untold numbers of creative
  crises and potential masterpieces that never get realized.
  Electronic musicians used to be able to hide behind clunky,
  emerging technology as an excuse for inaction. But musicians
  today live in a golden age of tools and technology. A ninety-nine-
  cent smartphone app can give you the functionality of a million-
  dollar recording studio. A new song can be shared with the world
  as soon as it’s �nished. Tutorials for every sound design or music
  production technique can be found through a Google search. All
  of these developments have served to level the playing �eld for
  musicians, making it possible for a bedroom producer to create
  music at a le