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what's the 730?

- chris

On May 27, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Mike Marsh wrote:

> The 730 was designed for you, then, Greg! It's all about rhythms,
> ploy and otherwise...
>
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Greg Amann <greg.amann@s...> wrote:
>
>> 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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