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THE BACKPACK COMPOSER
Genre blending has a reputation for being either magical or reckless, depending on who you ask.
Some people treat it like alchemy — throw disparate elements together and hope something interesting happens. Others see it as cultural trespassing. In practice, it is neither. It is research. And this week’s experiment — building a Bollywood-style dance track entirely on an iPad — made that clearer than ever. This was not a genre I grew up with, study formally, or even listen to casually. The request came from my wife, the intended audience was my daughter’s dance routine, a
William Hopson
10 hours ago
Constraint Is the Feature:
Classical Hip-Hop, Mobile Thinking, and Letting Ideas Lead Every time a new music tool drops, the conversation gets louder. New features appear overnight, workflows shift, and suddenly there’s a sense that if you’re not adopting everything immediately, you’re falling behind. What rarely improves at the same pace is the music itself. This week’s episode of The Backpack Composer grew out of that tension, and from an unexpected nudge at home. My wife informed me that this weeke
William Hopson
Feb 2
AI, Inevitability, and the Moving Target We Call Music
There’s a particular anxiety that shows up whenever technology touches art. It isn’t really about the technology itself—it’s about control . Who gets to create? Who gets credit? And who decides what “counts” as real? Artificial intelligence just happens to be the latest mirror we’re holding up to those questions. This week’s vlog looks at gear, workflow, and ethics—but the larger conversation underneath it is simpler and older than AI: Music has never been a fixed object. It’
William Hopson
Jan 27
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