On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Anthony Ewers wrote:
quoted 2 lines Do you sit manipulating numbers all day without playing keys or other
> Do you sit manipulating numbers all day without playing keys or other
> instruments
Much of the night, yes.
quoted 1 line have you ever *played* live?
> have you ever *played* live?
I'm inherently musical enough to play various instruments, to a point,
esp. drums and bass guitar. I can play clarinet pretty well, and have a
strong voice.
quoted 2 lines Please don't tell me you sit in front of Cubase's Grid/Key
> Please don't tell me you sit in front of Cubase's Grid/Key
> Edit all day!
Actually, Logic Audio, matrix and list editors. If I already know a
certain sound should play at 0.2.0.9. +/- a couple ticks, I just put it
there.
quoted 4 lines To come up with a new musical scale and thus possible harmonies you would
> To come up with a new musical scale and thus possible harmonies you would
> need to create notes not already present in other musical scales, like an
> H or an I for example. Put quite simply, the amount of maths that surrounds
> the acoustics of sounds & musical scale, points to this being impossible.
Harmony is a subset of timbre. There is no need to restrict one's musical
thinking to the grid of the chromatic scale. I'm not even stuck with a
12-tone grid on clarinet! (It ain't a trombone, but you can do some pitch
bends, quarter-tones, etc.) Much less with hardware/software which can
create and reproduce sounds of arbitrary complexity. Traditional notions
of melody and harmony sometimes don't apply.
quoted 4 lines The reasons you have to program
> The reasons you have to program
> or take multiple passes to record a simple acid bass line, is beacuase
> elctronic gear encourages people to record things thay can't physically
> play in one take
Good! In other words, electronics encourage a composer to dismiss the
notion that music should hobble through ten, clumsy fingers on its way
from the mind or soul.
quoted 2 lines people who barely play instruments using synths and sequencers and being
> people who barely play instruments using synths and sequencers and being
> heralded as bastians of music of the future!
On the upside, their thinking may not be bogged down so much by tradition.
Although I still believe a thorough understanding of the history of music,
as seen through a jaundiced eye, is an asset.
(So do you still want the demo cassette you asked for? ;-)
--Mark
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