21 Feb
2016
21 Feb
'16
12:33 a.m.
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:50:43 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote:
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
FWIW a musician should always care about the audience. When I was young
I made pop music, but was inspired by experimental music. For
example, kick and bass were two independent instruments for me, each
playing it's own line. An academic composer said, that I should play
kick and bass unisono. He was mistaken regarding some of my
compositions, especially since I composed mostly for myself, but he is
right regarding averaged pop music, especially when composed for an
audience. There's a vague boarder between well done and incompetence.
An audience of people who aren't musicians maybe would notice a bass
line independent of the kick in combination with a few other pitfalls,
as "too many (rhythm) instruments", "ten good songs in one odd song",
they don't notice the root, they just notice something unusual.
computers. However, this even could be done with
Qtractor, by simply
ignoring the sequencer's meter and recording with a high resolution,
IOW by using the sequence in the same way as an anlog tape recorder,
without quantisation, without a metronome given by the computer.
If a metronome is needed it could be recorded with the same technique
as the audio, one track for each. That way each of them could be
turned off or on.