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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