Have you ever fucked around with a massively powerful software synthesizer like Pigments or Dune or Serum? Or used a powerful digital fx software like Sandman Pro?
When you have a complex sound generating machine, you can walk around the internals expressing yourself by changing the sound and timbre of the instrument as it plays a note rather than changing the note and the aesthetic dynamics possible far outstrip what seeing music only through the lens of notes can do.
You can change the timbre of a note through physical instruments too. No good musician views music only through the lens of notes regardless of what instrument they play. If you prefer electronic music, that’s fine. But don’t act like its somehow superior to other kinds of music.
But don’t act like its somehow superior to other kinds of music.
I wasn’t, you are putting words in my mouth, I am absolutely aware that good musicians change the timbre of the instrument they are playing to express themselves but those things are usually considered the details, the flourishes, or embellishments of performance, not the core focus of the performance. All you need to do is take a cursory glance at sheet music to understand how most western genres of music perceive the experience and performance of music.
The first people to master this type of music composition and performance were likely didgeridoo players, or maybe it was players of some instrument in Chinese culture that I am unaware of since Chinese history goes back so far… so yah it ain’t new.
My apologies if I misunderstood you. I do disagree that such things are considered just small details though. In my experience, those details will make or break the entire performance. No one wants to listen to a live performance of what sounds like a midi track.
I do agree western music notation is very flawed, but creating a kind of notation that properly represents those things is nearly impossible. People have been trying for centuries, but so far the current form of notation is the best we can come up with.
Because of its limitations, musicians very often treat sheet music as a general guide, and deviate from it whenever they feel it is necessary.
Have you ever fucked around with a massively powerful software synthesizer like Pigments or Dune or Serum? Or used a powerful digital fx software like Sandman Pro?
When you have a complex sound generating machine, you can walk around the internals expressing yourself by changing the sound and timbre of the instrument as it plays a note rather than changing the note and the aesthetic dynamics possible far outstrip what seeing music only through the lens of notes can do.
A synthesizer is an instrument 🤣
You can change the timbre of a note through physical instruments too. No good musician views music only through the lens of notes regardless of what instrument they play. If you prefer electronic music, that’s fine. But don’t act like its somehow superior to other kinds of music.
I wasn’t, you are putting words in my mouth, I am absolutely aware that good musicians change the timbre of the instrument they are playing to express themselves but those things are usually considered the details, the flourishes, or embellishments of performance, not the core focus of the performance. All you need to do is take a cursory glance at sheet music to understand how most western genres of music perceive the experience and performance of music.
The first people to master this type of music composition and performance were likely didgeridoo players, or maybe it was players of some instrument in Chinese culture that I am unaware of since Chinese history goes back so far… so yah it ain’t new.
My apologies if I misunderstood you. I do disagree that such things are considered just small details though. In my experience, those details will make or break the entire performance. No one wants to listen to a live performance of what sounds like a midi track.
I do agree western music notation is very flawed, but creating a kind of notation that properly represents those things is nearly impossible. People have been trying for centuries, but so far the current form of notation is the best we can come up with.
Because of its limitations, musicians very often treat sheet music as a general guide, and deviate from it whenever they feel it is necessary.