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And, by the way Paul H, anybody that can articulate what you have in
your post ABSOLUTELY has stuff to contribute to patch-of-the-week
beyond editing/collecting.  I'd love to see patches from the depths of
your experience!

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Marsh" <michaelmarsh@s...> 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