Thank you thank you thank you! This is what I was hoping would come
of my earlier post. I am intensely interested in why/how/what other
people do in synthesis, and this is a keen insight indeed.
I think we are after the same thing, ultimately: beautiful music. I
also think that there is a very large social/cultural component to
people's response to music and what is beautiful or not. Some of it
is indeed hard-wired, some of it not. I want to, um, "challenge" the
ear sometimes, although I grant you that I'm rearely successful in
passing it off as 'beautiful" :> even though I sincerely believe it
myself.
What about it folks? How/why/what do the rest of you do?
Mike
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "paulhaneberg" <phaneber@o...> wrote:
> That was a great post by Mike. I thought maybe I would explain as
> well what I am after with my synth, since it is somewhat different
> than what Mike does.
>
> My long term goal is to produce albums of synthesized music. The
> type of synthesis that I am interested in is the antithesis of
> techno or industrial type music. I am not particularly interested
> in rhythm. I love sounds that are pleasing to the ear, or to put it
> another way are aesthetic.
>
> I have spent a good deal of time studying what exactly makes a sound
> fall into this category. Its not just consonance, it can also
> involve resolving dissonance. It's about combinations of harmonics
> and patterns of notes and how they relate to each other.
>
> I am terribly interested in the synthesis of traditional
> instruments, not so much because I want to replicate them, but
> because I want to understand why their sound is pleasing. If
> traditional instruments were not pleasant sounding they would never
> have lasted for hundreds of years. The synthesizer is still very
> young, but it is certainly very capable. This is not to say that I
> don't like or appreciate other styles and other directions. But I
> have always been attrracted to music that involves building
> sonorities and that involves symmetry.
>
> I believe that music is something that is hardwired into the brain,
> and that there are certain sounds and combinations of sounds that
> can impart specific emotions.
>
> So, my goal when I play around with my synth is to create sounds
> that I can combine to produce an emotional response in the listener.
>
> Paul Haneberg