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I was a classically trained musician, I need to be able to easily compose complexities with an unlimited number of tracks available to me, be able to use the samples I record at above 96kHz, and incorporate organic instruments played live such as violin, etc, where the note played cycles through various samples each time, etc. This is one of the reasons I delved into modular and am already pulling out of it as well as selling my Octatrack. I don't think this is the answer, even in music styles like that of Xenakis or Stockhausen, the music stands above their ways and means which is why when everybody rushes in to use the same techniques and tools the music is subpar.Īlso Bach has composed some seriously boooring music, that acquired the use of Monstrous performers to be barely audible.Ī lot of that crossword-like music falls into that category imo. So - modular: It seems to me that the possibilities for this are space age outer space fascinating and limitless - its all frequencies and you have clocks and quantizers so WTF? People just plug the goesouta into the goesinta and zoink away with bleeps and bloops, never thinking twice about the form or architecture that is the foundation - why would anyone want to listen to that?Īll good music stands above the technique used to create it, all rubbish music just celebrates that technique. In the 20th century some ultra-smartie-pantses went off the deep end with such ideas - calculus is clearly more difficult to follow along with than arithmetic.

There is a famous one from Bartok that goes 123456789 …įor those unfamiliar with this approach - it is a common way to write a piece of music that stretches over a long period of time without being just a long jackoff - some sort of development and thematic basis. All you have to do is take the score to a piece and listen along and ask yourself 'what number is this?' and you'll see OMG this entire piece is 3's or whatever number it is. Of course Bach was an expert at this but there are many others - Beethoven loved to write a piece of music based on a single number. If one examines the work of many of the great composers of the European tradition they find that there is a lot of fascinating number-art (for lack of a better term) - the use of Escher-like techniques for creating unity and variation. Shreddoggie wrote:I really wish modular people would take it more seriously.