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Subject: Re: Patch Book

From: "Mike Marsh" <michaelmarsh@...>
Date: 2005-06-03

VC Divider, very cool. There's a demo in the files section...

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Chris Walcott <cedub@m...> wrote:
> 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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