composerzane

• composerzane 8 Oct 2009 19:03 UTC

  −1 points

  on: Let them eat cake: In­ter­per­sonal Prob­lems vs Tasks

  Personally, I think musicians who can actually play their instruments are capable of creating more “magical” music than musicians who can’t.

  this statement requires a clarification for several terms: can “instruments” refer to a digital sequencer? turntable(s)? microphone, loop pedal, effects pedal, etc? a rewired speak and spell? a laptop running generative algorithms?

  “Magical” might need a touch more clarification as well.

  if it does include those, then the statement ends up a tautology; musicians who can play music well can play music better than those who can’t play music well...?

• composerzane 23 May 2009 14:17 UTC

  1 point

  on: Brute-force Mu­sic Composition

  excellent piece of music, to my ears. i consider myself a musician (amateur composer?) with an adequate knowledge of theory. even though the notion of a confined search-space was already priming me for a possibly less continuous melody, the melody still struck me, even emotionally. the brute-force method, to generalize from a single example, seems to be excellent (when well-constrained) for writing novel chord progressions. perhaps if you use the second chord of each sequence as the first chord of a new sequence, afterward piecing them together, you could increase continuity even further. i think this piece, however, might say more about the qualities that would satisfy your goals (IOW, a solution to the problem) than the search-space you covered, perhaps? to clean up this particular example, perhaps one might more clearly define what qualifies as a solution in the first place? for example, how “good” did one phrase need to sound before it was acceptable?