30 Mar
2007
30 Mar
'07
10:40 p.m.
<<..phenomenon I've never experienced before but suddenly find myself
wrestling with now: no music interests me any more, and everything I
play sounds to me like completely unengaging, tired old crap.<<
That must suck. For me it's about beauty -- music is just one path
from here to there.
On 3/30/07, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:24:07PM +0200, Malte Steiner wrote:
This is not unique to Linux, or to electronic music, or even to experimental or
"serious" music. How many guitar-rock bands sound exactly the same? How many
DJ's or rappers sound exactly the same? How many American-Idol-style singers sound
exactly the same? Some new tool or genre comes out, and everyone rushes to it, and thus
sounds the same. Pop music is practically defined by recycling the same sounds and cliches
over and over again. And, as Dave Philips noted, complaints about experimental music
sounding flat or too noisy or cacophonous or lacking compositional craft, are as old as
musique concrete.
It's all just music. Different sounds affect people in different ways. Sometimes no
sounds affect us in any ways... a strange, alien, and somewhat alarming phenomenon
I've never experienced before but suddenly find myself wrestling with now: no music
interests me any more, and everything I play sounds to me like completely unengaging,
tired old crap.
- -ken
musical elements: rythm, melody, harmony. There is
always some
structure in time, but it's very often just the same: building
up to a climax.
I even missed that in some pieces, a beginning, an end and something in
between. Often pieces sounds static or like a sound demo but no moving
composition. Maybe it is a different school, I could imagine some
reasons to create pieces that static way but it is not my cup of tea.
About typical sounds, its not Linux related, I made similar observations
in other electroacoustic events which focused on other systems like Mac.
There seems to be always the synthesis du jour and suddenly you hear the
same artefacts everywhere. Maybe its sort of musical standards or riffs
like you have in other genres like Blues. Annoying was the release of
Ableton Live where suddenly every laptopper (what a word but I use it
offending, intentionally) sounds the same and claim to use granular
synthesis which is a joke, granular is much more than a bit studdering
through your properly non original samples.
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