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"after playing music on various 'real' instruments for the last .. 18 years, is that the process of composition using code is so so different"
Two sincere questions: 1. What made you decide to begin using Overtone? Will it give you something specific that weren't getting from "real" instrumentation? 2. The differences you mention make sense and seem completely valid. I wonder what (if any) are the similarities you found? Thanks.
I was interested in the possibilities of algorithmic composition: you can use algorithms to generate patterns of arbitrary complexity, add randomness, vary things mathematically. With real instrumentation, everything that's heard must be played in real time, which can weigh you down if you want to put together many musical ideas at once.
Computer music uses all the same music theory, so that's not just similar but rather identical. I'd predict that when it (computer music) gets its own Mozarts and Beethovens, the musical theory could diverge. I aspired to be such a virtuoso but in end realized that the physical experience of playing an instrument was too important to lose.
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fakepalindrome · 4521 days ago · link ·
the physical experience of playing an instrument was too important to lose. -There's something to that, isn't there. Though I must admit the world of algorithmic composition is completely foreign to me, I can see it's attraction. Limitless potential. But to me there is something to be said for the feel of the neck of a guitar in my hand or the weight of a pianos keys beneath my fingers. But these things are nostalgic because I've used them many times for years. If I were to use computer instrumentation perhaps I'd generate a nostalgia for something new. Who knows?