-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:24:07PM +0200, Malte Steiner wrote: > > >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. > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGDYfle8HF+6xeOIcRAgyuAKC5lTUTRn/01CHGIyLpyMeVSSl/eACgrxW6 mXbNe1jNUxLWuBGLoY2sbTc= =aOYh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
