Nice piece, but in my case the reaction was the opposite: I loved the beginning and when the drop came it didn't work for me. I wanted the intro to evolve.
I would say that Philip Glass as a representative of minimal music is pretty outdated. I say this cautiously, since one doesn't need to necessarily draw an evolutionary narrative here.
But these days we have way more ways to evolve a texture like that, whereas he had to rely on orchestral means only. And so a minimal loop like the one you mention as your inspiration or even your own intro could be evolved into a really fascinating piece, by mostly focusing on the DSP aspect of it. There could also be certain sub-melodic elements, like phase shifting, changing scales or otherwise manipulating the midi/audio information that doesn't involve changing the relationship between the notes themselves.
It's always very difficult to suggest something, especially when you're trying to present a whole new world through just several examples, but I decided to pick two releases by Steve Roach that demonstrate how a sequence might work with no drops whatsoever.
I would be curious if you find these interesting. But for me these pieces don't require patience or going into trance or anything like that. They offer a lot of variation. It's just not melodic variation.
Louigi Verona
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 2:21 PM David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Bill Purvis <bill@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 28/06/2022 13:01, David Kastrup wrote:
>> david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Jeanette!
>>>
>>> That was very nice. I really liked the mix of traditional-sounding
>>> organ and synthesizer. I think they go together very well.
>>>
>>> Although I'm not going to consult a friend who is a fanatic about
>>> "original instruments" and Baroque organs and utterly hates
>>> synthesizers.
>> What's his take on Hammond organs (tone wheels rotating before pickups)?
>> Certainly an "original instrument", not a synthesizer, not a digitally
>> sampled thing.
> I would classify it as a synthesizer, as it is synthesizing the sounds from
> basic tones, with some crude filtering.
The "basic tones" are from physical rotation. And Italian pipe organs
also synthesize the sounds from basic tones instead of having single
stops with a characteristic tone (which is more in the German organ
tradition).
--
David Kastrup
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