i agree with the statement below. those programs give you the ultimate in
flexibility and designing your own totally unique concept but its easy to
get lost in that world and focus too much about the technical aspect of
creating music. autechre is really the tops when it comes to designing your
musical world from the ground up but also retaining some soul (at least on
some recordings). im guessing that the person originally asking this
question is interested in other musicians because they are interested in
different sonic worlds then they currently live in and want to use an artist
as a reference as to where a program can take them. i dont think this is a
productive way to go about expanding your sonic territory. only other
producers will like your music and everyone else will just think it sounds
cold and too academic. i think we should all remember that people have made
amazing music with the most basic of tools. maybe im way off base here but
i thought the end point below needed to be driven home a little more.
justin
yellow then blue
On 10/18/07, n3wjack <n3wjack@n3wjack.net> wrote:
quoted 16 lines 2007/10/18, Josh Clayton <claytonster@gmail.com>:
>
> 2007/10/18, Josh Clayton <claytonster@gmail.com>:
>
> I read that Autechre uses Max/DSP with homemade patches, but that's about
> it.
>
> I wouldn't call it "limiting" either using stuff like this. There are
> hardly
> any limits when you get down to programming your own patches or software,
> but the learning curve is pretty steep.
> I started trying out Chuck and PureData at some point, but I found it too
> much work to come up with anything sounding good enough.
>
> It's not about writing music anymore with these kind of tools. It's more
> about programming your own sound.
> Which is cool, but something completely different.quoted 8 lines There are plenty of musicians, not many of which fall neatly into the IDM
>
> There are plenty of musicians, not many of which fall neatly into the IDM
> category, that exclusively use tools like Csound, ChucK, Supercollider,
> Max,
> etc. to make their music. I'd say they're more on the academically
> experimental side of things, like Florian Hecker or Iannis Xenakis.
> Probably lots of professors and students of music technology and related
> fields.
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