Unlike Paul H, I am primarily interested in rhythm (which makes sense
since I am a drummer). I do not confuse rhythm with the 4/4 thumping we
hear on the radio (and I am not implying that Paul H does). Music does
not generally translate into words very easily, but I think of rhythm as
"forward motion" or "momentum". A sense of the inevitable.
I love "un-pitched" sounds. I have a cymbal collection including two
gongs.
I disagree that music in hardwired. It seems that way to us because it
means so much to us. There are plenty of people for whom music is like
wallpaper. Music may be cultural.
I am interested in music that I am interested in and I try not to judge
other things going on in the world but I am almost never successful and
find that I judge Britney et al. constantly. I am learning to live with
this character defect. I would guess that I am interested in aboot
0.0001% of the music produced. To get a general idea of where my
beauty/pain threshold lies, listen to recent King Crimson or early Magma.
I have no desire to challenge anyone other than myself.
I love the internet since it allows me to engage in learned debate with
people of similar ilk and thereby rise above the primitive beasties.
I am selling a lot of stuff on eBay to pay for my MOTM. Boy, do I need
a power supply!
PLL, BFG
(Peace, light and love, Big Fat Greg)
Mike Marsh wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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