"Problem is that nowadays each composition student does an exercise and call it a piece... but that is a social problem not of the techniques."
Greetings Ricardo :) 2011/1/29 Ricardo Lameiro <ricardolame...@gmail.com> > I am a newbie in electronic music (not dance music by the way, electronic > in the broad sense) but i am also a "classic" musician, teacher, I also > played in traditional music groups etc... background aside here goes the > idea. > > A long time ago, in the renaissance and before, a third and a sixth were > considered a dissonant interval. Consonants where only the forth, fifth and > octave... this could be caused by a lot of different aspects, one of them > was the Temperament of the scale that was quit different from the 12 equal > semitones used later. Also the music was made primarily to be sang and > played in church and monasteries were the reverberation was big. After that > came the keyboard instruments and the difficulty of tuning of the same > instruments on different key signatures, this lead to a standard of twelve > equal semitones that allow "interchangeability" of keys. Some years later > came the continuous modulation, after that the dodecaphonic series and after > that integral serialism and electronic instruments etc etc etc. > Each of this changes were highly disregarded by the broad public being used > later on for more "commercial music". > > What i want to say is that, you may not like some type of music,I dont like > techno, even the pseudo good techno, on a bar, or at my music player, > however it has its space on a disco. Each music has its time, its > progression. Time its the best filter, maybe 90 % of the music created > nowadays will not be heard in 200 years, but when the music touches senses > it will endure. there where hundreds of baroque and classical composers at > their time, however you only know a handful of them.... sometimes we as a > society need time to assimilate change. Maybe a chainsaw is more musical > than a violin, it all depends how the music is made, how the musical > discourse and flow goes. apart of the music, there will be always place for > "etudes". Problem is that nowadays each composition student does an exercise > and call it a piece... but that is a social problem not of the techniques. > > sorry for the rant > bye > > 2011/1/30 <beatthefinalb...@gmail.com> > > > I even read the Pd/Max/Csound/Chuck mailing lists too but I choose to >> > make actual music with those tools. >> >> How do you define "Actual Music"? Some of us happen to define >> "chainsaw in cave 6 feet down" as music ;) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-list@iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > > > > -- > Fagote / Contrafagote > Bassoon / Contra-bassoon > http://myspace.com/ricardolameiro > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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