Here is a list of resources for my intro-level music technology students at the end of the semester. This is a non-exhaustive list meant to inspire rather than overwhelm. That being said, I welcome suggestions for additional resources to include, with a preference for sources that are free or low-cost.


General audio/production resources:


www.youtube.com/@AudioUniversity

www.youtube.com/@sonicacademy

www.youtube.com/@MusicRadarTech

Why Reaper?
(Comprehensive and excellent list of resources from Jeff Kaiser: free plugins and VSTs, tutorials aimed at Reaper but generalizable to any DAW, etc.)

Tape Op Magazine

Recording, Mixing, Mastering:


www.youtube.com/@mixwiththemasters

www.youtube.com/@TheMixAcademy

www.youtube.com/@Producelikeapro

www.youtube.com/@SonicScoop

www.youtube.com/@fabfilter

www.youtube.com/@TheHouseofKushTV

www.izotope.com/en/learn.html

Huber and Runstein - Modern Recording Techniques

Savage - Mixing and Mastering Inside the Box

Owsinksi - Mastering Engineer’s Handbook

Corey - Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training
(I can’t recommend this one highly enough...)



Live sound:


www.youtube.com/@DaveRat


Sampling


www.youtube.com/@tracklib

www.youtube.com/@massappeal

www.whosampled.com/
(searchable index of source samples for a sprawling range of music)

Justin Williams - Rhymin' and Stealin': Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop


Logic Pro:


www.youtube.com/@WhyLogicProRules

www.youtube.com/@MusicTechHelpGuy


Ableton Live:


https://www.youtube.com/@Ableton
(also great for general songwriting and beatmaking inspiration)

https://www.youtube.com/@NedRush


Max MSP:


www.youtube.com/@cycling74com

www.youtube.com/@AmazingMaxStuff

www.youtube.com/@dude837  (“Delicious Max Tutorials”)

Schuette - Demystifying Max/MSP

Manzo - Max/MSP/Jitter for Music


Analog synths and DIY:


www.youtube.com/@andrewhuang

www.youtube.com/@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC

www.youtube.com/@MoogMusicInc

www.youtube.com/@buchlausa

www.youtube.com/@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Collins - Handmade Electronic Music

Edstrom - Arduino for Musicians



Music Theory and Songwriting


www.youtube.com/@AdamNeely

www.youtube.com/@RickBeato

musictheory.net

Snodgrass - Contemporary Musicianship

Sarath - Music Theory through Improvisation

Edwards - How To Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC

Desantis - Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers

Sethares - Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale




Critical and Historical Inquiry


Tara Rodgers - Pink Noises

King Britt - Blacktronika: Exploring Innovators of Color in Electronic Music

Jon Silpayamanant - DAW, Music Production, and Colonialism, a Bibliography

Joanna Demers - Listening through the Noise

Alexa Woloshyn - Electroacoustic Voices: Sounds Queer, and Why It Matters

Deniz Peters et al. - Bodily Expression in Electronic Music

Tricia Rose - Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

Michel Chion - Sound, an Acoulogical Treatise (trans James Steintrager)

R. Murray Schafer - The Soundscape 

Bennett - Modern Records, Maverick Methods: Technology and Process in Popular Music Record Production 1978-2000

Alexander Weheliye - “Feenin”: Posthuman Voices in Contemporary Black Popular Music. Social Text 20.2 (2002) 21-47

Georgina Born - Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde

Simon Emmerson (ed.) - Music, Electronic Media, and Culture

Simon Frith and Simon Zigorski-Thomas (ed.) - The Art of Record Production

Jonathan Sterne (ed.) - The Sound Studies Reader

Alexander Weheliye - Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity


Gear Reviews


www.youtube.com/@sweetwater

www.youtube.com/waves

whyreaper.com/plugins-resources
(Free and open source resources for audio plug-ins etc)

https://gearspace.com/
(Forum for reviews, help, etc)

Synth Anatomy


Other Topics + Resources


www.youtube.com/user/elifieldsteel
(excellent tutorials on SuperCollider)

Stanford Center for Computer Music Research and Acoustics (CCRMA)

Columbia Computer Music Center

Music21
(toolkit for computer-aided musicology by Michael Scott Cuthbert)

Humdrum
(toolkit computer-aided musicology, by David Huron)