[LAU] Music: an audio collage

[Louigi Verona]

Oh, I totally get the feeling of being there. I mean, I do ambient :)

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 2:50 PM, jonetsu <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 23:48:43 +0100
> Louigi Verona <louigi.verona at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Absolutely wonderful!
>
> Thanks !
>
> > Intrigued by how you did that.
>
> Apart from the synth, basically by putting together various sounds.
> I must say that even though *maybe* this could be done in Ardour, I find
> that Bitwig offers the user the flexibility to move things around
> easily.  And this is one big part, for me, of the problem eg. being
> able to do that in the first place.  I think, as with other things, and
> it may sound corny to say so, that it comes mostly by doing it.
>
> The problem is to be able to be there at the present moment, listening,
> while at the same time doing things like playing a keyboard, playing
> sounds.  It sounds terribly easy and straightforward but it turns out
> that it is not, for me.  Seconds are always running away.  Minutes,
> hours, days, weeks, years.  So the problem is to be really there.
>
> The other part of the problem is to have transparent tools.  Every
> software can have problems.  I've been way too often trying to find
> out sw problems, reporting them, instead of 'being there'.  The
> transparency of the tools, that enables actions from the mind, from the
> inspiration, to be materialized at the present moment is important, so
> this means not going into avenues in the first place where we know there
> could be tool problems.
>
> And the third aspect is that even though I might be with the minority
> regarding trying to be wholly, fully there at the present moment, I
> hope that music gives this feeling to the listeners.  At least this
> type of music, which is not so much like songs where there is often a
> state of expectation from the immediate future.  So, to carry this
> feeling of 'being there' by means of music to the listeners.  I find
> that some kinds of music, and perhaps in a general way all musics,
> opens this door of consciousness regarding simply 'being there'.  For
> that moment the music lasts.
>
> Cheers.
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Louigi Verona
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