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If you want to know music, you have to learn music. Now if you was Schoenberg, you might just pick it up mostly from listening and reading scores. If ya's not, well, that means learning the structure of Music. There's lotsa resources. I recommend this one: www.solomonsmusic.net  The glossary alone will take you far.
 
I am particular to brunettes, beau. But I give lovin ta whomever truly wants it.
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Originally posted by Asund Asund wrote:

I am particular to brunettes, beau. But I give lovin ta whomever truly wants it.
What kind of lovin and what's the catch? I'm asking for a friend.
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Originally posted by Asund Asund wrote:

I am particular to brunettes, beau. But I give lovin ta whomever truly wants it.
What kind of lovin and what's the catch? I'm asking for a friend.
 
-raises eyebrows....smiles-  When I say rub down, I mean rub doan! Nothing freaky. The catch is one must be emotionally open. Don't come to the field if ya ain't ready ta play.
 
Now back to your regularly-scheduled programming.......
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Originally posted by Asund Asund wrote:

If you want to know music, you have to learn music. Now if you was Schoenberg, you might just pick it up mostly from listening and reading scores. If ya's not, well, that means learning the structure of Music. There's lotsa resources. I recommend this one: www.solomonsmusic.net  The glossary alone will take you far.
 
I am particular to brunettes, beau. But I give lovin ta whomever truly wants it.


Alas, being deaf, I can't listen to music; being blind, I can't read scores.
Also, being illiterate, I can't understand golssary.
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Ahh, you're just being pissy. Chill, bra.
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To start 2017, a new track (with some sweet and fond memories from my University years as a History student, stuck in lessons about the first human industries):

https://soundcloud.com/c-dric-a-picard/ceramique-et-metal

Enjoy the echoes!
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^ An addictive ambience, love it!
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Takes me back to......FORBIDDEN PLANET.
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But it isn't prog rock in any way, shape or form. 

I also do - did - electronic music - with prog rock influence. This is music concrete, if it's anything at all. 

This is my particular take on electronic prog rock. You may notice (a) a high level of musicianship, hem hem, although I say it myself (b) adequate instrumentation (c) use of exotic scales and influences (d) story telling (e) I actually change time and key every so often. Like two minutes, in this case. ;-)

Apologies, but there's a distiction between noise and music. 

https://soundcloud.com/brotherhoodofthemachine/brotherhood-of-the-machine-samarkand-suite




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Originally posted by Davesax1965 Davesax1965 wrote:

But it isn't prog rock in any way, shape or form. 

I also do - did - electronic music - with prog rock influence. This is music concrete, if it's anything at all. 


 
It's music-concrete only if it's altered recorded sounds. Gross sounds, not samples. Sounds like he used a ring modulator and a sine tone.
 
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Asund, I build analogue synthesizers for a hobby. No ring mod. 

It's certainly not music. I just mention this having actually been a musician for 41 years. 

THIS is electronic prog rock. I just happened to do it. Contrast and compare. 

https://soundcloud.com/brotherhoodofthemachine/brotherhood-of-the-machine-samarkand-suite

Also try this - less Eastern influences but more Krautrock oriented. 

https://soundcloud.com/brotherhoodofthemachine/brotherhood-of-the-machine-hin-und-zuruck


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Groovy.
 
.....it's a sonic phenomenon. If you're Stockhausen, it certainly is music. It's not concrete, though.

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"Noise". 

There's a growing tendency in electronic music for non musicians to buy modular synthesizers and then just make noises on them. About 90% - possibly higher - of all people who actually own a modular seem to just plug everything at random and then somehow convince themselves that what they're producing is "music". 

Here's one I built earlier, at component level. Thing is, I'm really a saxophonist, but I'm also a multi instrumentalist. The woods are full of people with zero musical training - or the deluded who think being able to strum a few chords on a guitar turns you into a musician. 

I have a massively open mind about music. If you listen to my stuff, there are all kinds of influences in it. If I listen to the OP's stuff...... I'm very sorry. I don't even hear the beginning fundamentals of music.

"Not for me". Others taste may vary, and if the OP is happy with is work, fine for him. I would remind him that posting work on a public forum invites critique, and it's never all good. 



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I amended my post some.
 
Static is noise. I like listening to it. Really enjoyed the fuzz on the TV as a kid, visually and aurally.
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Thomas Beecham, the famous English conductor, was asked if he'd ever conducted any Stockhausen. 

"No" he replied, "but I once trod in some."

Static is indeed noise. 
Noise is not music. Music has rules and conventions. 





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I'm sure he did. The English were pretty 'proper' gents, stuck in Vaughn Williams and that. The French at least were open to new things not necessarily their own. But taste too often gets in the way of comprehension, and some recognition of the quality in a thing unfamiliar.
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Taste doesn't get in the way of comprehension, I fully *comprehend* what is music and what is not music. This is noise. For "unfamiliar" music, I was listening to Amon Duul and early Hawkwind many years ago and I've always liked unusual music. 

This is a bit funny, as I'm English as well, as were a lot of experimental musicians in the 60's, Floyd being an example, so bang goes that theory. ;-)

As for quality, pop on the Muffwiggler website or ask my friend Gwen, who does "noise" much better than this. 



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I have my own definition of music. Though it starts with craft. Popcul had neat stuff through that time, but whether blokes like Robert Fripp, or the engineers and inventors developing the devices, the output was rarely Art Music level.
 
Gwen. Someone here?
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Nope, Gwen is on another forum and does noise based electronic music. Well, "music" in a broad term. More experimental. She does some interesting stuff, but - well, it's music with a small m. 

The OP here describes his stuff as "on the margins". Which I think would be a fair comment if he'd actually shown us first that he can actually play, "and now here's some of my experimental stuff".

And this is the problem I have with "experimental stuff". The Dunning-Kruger effect now means that huge numbers of people consider themselves musicians as they can create sounds with a variety of electronics and software which wasn't previously available to the masses. 

Anyone can now make electronic noise. Pretty much in the same way that anyone can create abstract art. I've got some time for some artists, such as Picasso, who started off with some degree of talent and then explored boundaries. They've done their apprenticeship and paid their dues. However, for every one artist like that, there are 10,000 scribblers trying to pass a lack of talent off as "abstract art". 

Listening to M. Picard's jolly ditties, they invoke no imagery, have no dynamics - at least for me. It pleasures me not, and music is all subjective. Which is why you're perfectly entitled to your opinion, and so am I. 

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PS I quite like Robert Fripp. ;-)

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