MOTM

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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