2 Jul
2005
2 Jul
'05
1:42 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 08:37:00AM -0600, Steve D wrote:
Thank you Thorsten-- Believe it or not, I chose the old fat saw-wave
synthesizer sound *because* it sounded cheesy. ;-) It's a way of poking
fun at my own music and at production in general. Having the same
thought as you, I tried several jazz organ and a variety of great flute
sounds before choosing the cheesy current lead voice.
Interesting.
The other lead
voice is cheesy too, a stratocaster guitar sound with *way* overdone
delay, phaser, chorus and equalization (so 80s).
I don't think that one is cheesy. To me it's a nice, full, warm sound,
working very well in its context. Well, ok a bit less phasing/chorus
might have done it, too :)
That said, I believe "music" is in the ear
of the creator and listener,
to convert the "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" quote to a
different purpose. I personally feel that music is *any* sound that its
creator likes or enjoys, from clicking sticks together while walking
through the woods in cadence to them, to the most elaborately
structured, harmonically or melodically or rhythmically complex sounds
he or she can come up with. And good music should be able to stand on
its own, *apart* from any production that may give it a superficial
polish and gleam. The beauty and impressive nature of Rachmaninov's
harmonies and melodies would remain even if they were played on toy
pianos, steel drums, etc. (although they sound better with piano and
orchestra ;-)
I guess what I mean is that the music itself, to me, matters more than
the production of that music. If I can be pleased with my music
*despite* cheesy sounds, bad production and inexpert mixing, then that
means (to me) that the music itself is OK. ;-)
Yes, especialy great harmonies and melodies can work with varying
instrumentation and work their magic even with realy bad ones.
But in some cases the sound _is_ the music. Some sequences only
work with matching sounds and are meaningless without (not that
it would be the case here).
Personaly, I don't see the choice of patches/sounds as part of
the production ... or rather it's inbetween composition/generation
and production.
Sorry for the "philosophical digression."
;-)
NP ;-)
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Thorsten Wilms