[LAU] Subconscious Affecting Music

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Thu Aug 26 13:23:47 UTC 2010


On Thu, August 26, 2010 6:20 am, Louigi Verona wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Patrick Shirkey
> <pshirkey at boosthardware.com
>> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, August 26, 2010 1:35 am, Louigi Verona wrote:
>> > Can you describe this technique in words?
>> >
>>
>> How about a test instead. Listen to 10 of the latest club remixes of the
>> latest Pop music from the last 3 years and tell me if you can spot the
>> compositional technique therein? It's mostly centered around certain
>> very
>> similar synth and drum patterns and is complemented by the use of
>> sexually
>> suggestive breathy female vocal tracks/samples and aggressive dumbed
>> down
>> male lyrics.
>>
>>
>
> Ah, I see. Term confusion. Compositional technique the way I understand
> and
> use that word is a technique of developing a tune. Drum patterns,
> certain samples are not what I would call compositional technique - this
> is
> what I would call context ;)
> So yeah, I see what you mean.
>

That's fine but I don't see what you mean ;-)

Composition is the process of combining musical patterns to create a
complete structure. What is context?

I've never heard it used in this context...


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Patrick Shirkey
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