Elektron Musical Instruments

interesting thread.  I don't really having anything to add.  I just wanted to say so.  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dr. W. 
  To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 7:41 PM
  Subject: Re: OT[elektron] music and math


  >try thinking about this...math is an ideal model.  It can only
  >represent music to some degree of accuracy.  So, much of music
  >can be described with math, but there is more to it. :)
  >

  Totally... I think the more interesting question is how all that math or
  fequency addition and subtraction pulls at our emotions in a certain way.
  Like why does a minor scale sound spookier than a major scale?  And why does
  blues music use so many diminished chords?  The pure math aspect is just an
  outward appearance from a very left-brained lop sidedness.  From a whole
  brain perspective, math will never be the "end all, be all" tool for
  creating music, it just really helps you to structure everything.  Most of
  it really begins and ends in the heart, the mysterious seat of all our power
  as humans.  Thats why I tend to like eastern classical music more than
  western classical music, because I think at some point the math aspect sort
  of outstripped the emotional and spiritual element among the rennaisance
  composers.  Western classical music is very beautiful and massive like a
  statue, but it is just so much colder and more stiff than a Hindu Raga or
  some Noh play from Japan.  And especially the vocal stuff like opera - for
  me italian opera has nothing on sufi Qawwali music, or Tuvan throat singing.
  But this is just my opinion.


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