On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:10:08 -0800 (PST) Renato Fabbri <renatoftato@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > --- Brad Fuller <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Rob wrote: > > > On Sun March 12 2006 11:48, Jeremiah Benham wrote: > > > > > >> Most of the composers I know just use pencil and > > paper. > > >> Usually it is staff paper. > > >> > > > > > > Believe it or not, I've only ever known one of > > those, and he > > > still did most of his work via MIDI. (I notated > > on staff paper > > > myself a lot in high school, too, but that was > > before the Amiga > > > came out....) > > > > > but, if you are trained on that, as most of us are, > > that's what you do. > > Even now writing on paper for me is superior to any > > other composing > > software. There is no contest. > > I write music on staff and compose electronics on > computers without thinking of a single note. Different > things to do different things. Of course, it is nice > and ok to like bananas better than pineapples, or inverse. To me the invention of MIDI was the opening of a door. For very many years I struggled with notation on paper, and achieved very little. I was physically incapable of realising my ideas on a keyboard with anything more than the simplest of melodies and the most basic accompaniments. Dots on paper simply didn't convey anything to me - in spite of 5 years formal piano lessons as a child. Once I had a sequencer however. I could immediately just *play* the melody, and part at a time add in counter-melodies, rhythm patterns and anything else I wanted. The few pieces I've put up for people here to hear would never have been done without. On my website I even refer to that with 'The Crystal Ship'. I spent so many years of utter frustration with the musical 'image' quite clear in my head but absolutely no way to realise it. I also believe that having that image there was probably sort of blocking me from developing other ideas. -- F
