Elektron Musical Instruments

Yup,

western notation developed over hundreds of years and every new development 
in notation most probbaly had a large effect on every new era of western 
classical music. now because those developments have been drilled into 
society for so long. even sitting behind our sequencers we are restrained by 
the same rules.

one of the most enlightening musical experences i've had in the past year 
has been messing around with metasynth (if you have a mac download the demo 
now) dealing with sound on such a low level gives me the same feeling as 
holding a distorted guitar against an amp.

/Steven#

PS: It's also always good to remember that scientificly, all electronic 
instruments are actually tuned wrongly.


>----- 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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