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Reed Lover
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Topic: Why do we love music? Posted: December 09 2004 at 16:58 |
Oh sorry Cert,Dont know how I made that mistake!
How is Flossy BTW ?
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Certif1ed
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 16:56 |
Reed Lover wrote:
Nah, it's Cert who likes the sheep.Dig up his post
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I said nothing about sheep - I was talking about wellies.
Honest...
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Angeliqué
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 14:46 |
Listening to some Kobus now... Hoenderman, in fact!!!
They are just soooo original!!
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Just take a pebble, and cast it to the sea.... Angeliqué
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Proghead
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 14:26 |
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Angeliqué
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 14:21 |
Would hate for them to come to SA and have the locals teach them a
thing or two about sheep..... Things could probably get verrrry
nasty....
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Just take a pebble, and cast it to the sea.... Angeliqué
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Proghead
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 14:18 |
Uffington it is These UK guys
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Angeliqué
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 13:42 |
Yeah, and "Uffington" upon closer inspection of the pic.
Ah, music.....
"Without music, or an intriguing idea
colour becomes pallor,
man becomes carcass,
home becomes catacomb
and the dead, are but for a moment, motionless."
That just about sums it up for me. One just CAN NOT do without music!!!
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Just take a pebble, and cast it to the sea.... Angeliqué
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Proghead
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 13:25 |
Looks like Arbingdom.
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Angeliqué
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 13:24 |
Was that "Upington" I read... Probably not, hey?
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Just take a pebble, and cast it to the sea.... Angeliqué
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Proghead
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 13:22 |
No I just found it on the web.
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Angeliqué
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 13:19 |
Was that from a South African newspaper or what????
Someone pleeez lemme know..
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Just take a pebble, and cast it to the sea.... Angeliqué
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 13:15 |
Nah, it's Cert who likes the sheep.Dig up his post
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Angeliqué
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 13:10 |
What the f***?!
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Just take a pebble, and cast it to the sea.... Angeliqué
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Proghead
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 06:43 |
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 06:42 |
zappa123 wrote:
why do I like music so much?Because I can actually penetrate into it.
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Funnily enough that's why I love female Prog fans.
Edited by Reed Lover
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zappa123
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 04:46 |
why do I like music so much?Because I can actually penetrate into it.
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Certif1ed
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 03:49 |
James Lee wrote:
What would music be like if composers could generate it directly out of their heads?
A real mess, I reckon - I don't know about you, but when I write music, I tend to have many, many ideas happening, sometimes simultaneously - then I go off on tangents, try different stuff, realise it didn't work, so try to go back to the original ideas, try the original ideas with different sounds and instruments, improv around these ideas, have more ideas, get writer's block... and all within a single jam session
Would musicianship eventually disappear as no one would have to learn to play an instrument?
I doubt it, as to compose using an instrumental technique, you need to understand the technique - simply imagining the sound isn't enough, IMO.
What if a device could read your mental state and spontaneously generate the perfect suitable accompaniment?
That was what my "AI" project was partly about - granted I had to feed the melody in manually, but the program "read" the notes, and harmonised it using rules that I gave it. It also presented options, where the rules of harmony could be interpreted in ways that might be considered "better". I think Brian Eno was working on a similar project.
Will everyone be trading personally generated compositions rather than selecting from the available professional recording artists?
Instead? I wouldn't think so!
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New ways of creating music have got to be good - but there is also a lot to be said for tradition
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James Lee
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Posted: December 08 2004 at 21:28 |
selling_echoes wrote:
I thought I'd have my turn at this, even though I'm pretty late.
Because music is everything your irises cannot perceive. Ever think about the fact that for a blind person, everything becomes music?
I see it this way... music is an art, but it is also a generator of foreign feelings. During songs like Mood For A Day (Yes) and Horizon's (Genesis) there are certain emotions running through me that I cannot name, and I love that feeling. Music is the most powerful, most universal, most personal form of art that I know. It is an escape, another parallel reality. I don't know, when I listen to a song I particularly love the song takes me away completely, wraps me in the cascade.
It brings people together, it even brings a single person together into one emotion, one song, one silence.
I guess I love music because it is timeless.
My music timeline : Britney + BSB --> NSYNC + O-Town --> Sum 41 + Simple Plan + Good Charlotte --> Nirvana + Red Hot Chili Peppers --> Coldplay --> Pink Floyd + Genesis.
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Very well said. Looking forward to what comes after the next "-->"
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selling_echoes
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Posted: December 08 2004 at 21:15 |
I thought I'd have my turn at this, even though I'm pretty late.
Because music is everything your irises cannot perceive.
Ever think about the fact that for a blind person, everything becomes music?
I see it this way... music is an art, but it is also a generator of
foreign feelings. During songs like Mood For A Day (Yes) and Horizon's
(Genesis) there are certain emotions running through me that I cannot
name, and I love that feeling. Music is the most powerful, most
universal, most personal form of art that I know. It is an escape,
another parallel reality. I don't know, when I listen to a song I
particularly love the song takes me away completely, wraps me in the
cascade.
It brings people together, it even brings a single person together into one emotion, one song, one silence.
I guess I love music because it is timeless.
My music timeline :
Britney + BSB --> NSYNC + O-Town --> Sum 41 + Simple Plan + Good
Charlotte --> Nirvana + Red Hot Chili Peppers --> Coldplay
--> Pink Floyd + Genesis.
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James Lee
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Posted: December 08 2004 at 21:07 |
What would music be like if composers could generate it directly out of their heads?
Would musicianship eventually disappear as no one would have to learn to play an instrument?
What if a device could read your mental state and spontaneously generate the perfect suitable accompaniment?
Will everyone be trading personally generated compositions rather than selecting from the available professional recording artists?
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