You cut'n'pasted that sentence. And that sentence. Do you even have your own voice these days?

[reddragdiva]

• Wikimedia blog: Dead institutions walking.

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Fun with LMMS continues. No new tracks, but I'm coming up with some really quite horrible potential earworms. A hazard of LMMS is that the samples and presets sound really good, and it's very easy to come up with something that sounds beautiful but isn't of much substance; so I've been doing stuff in sine wave and TR-606, which pretty much forces me to put them into non-shitty voices afterwards. Also, be sure to mix on both on headphones and awful netbook speakers.

I'm playing lots of bleepy rubbish in close study mode, occasionally wowed by the orchestration that goes into some apparently simple stuff, but mostly slightly appalled at what musicians get away with. I got the same thing when I started learning bass and realised how many rock'n'roll clichés are artifacts of trapping oneself in EADBGE tuning. Sonic Youth were onto something, y'know. As was Keith Richards. Any musician who doesn't twiddle every knob to find out what it does is failing to do it right.

Comments

[aster13]

That's the *trouble* with musicians though. Bloody compulsive knob-twiddlers, the lot of them.

[reddragdiva]

It's probably all failure, unless it isn't. I remember seeing Joel Silbersher playing live in 1995 and getting really pissed off at his objectively good songwriting. I DON'T GO TO GIGS FOR OBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES.

[aster13]

Er. Sorry. I was being metaphorical. Their tendancy to get all wanky over their music (I made music which i love! It goes on for hours! No-one else can stand it! How awesome am i!) a la rock twiddly twiddly twiddlyeeee fretwanking and general navel-gazing, self-centered, sex obsessed wanking (Look at my lovely cock! I'm on the stage! Aren't i sexy!)

[reddragdiva]

Oh yeah, I was agreeing with you. I was advocating twiddling the knobs to know what they all do, not necessarily inflicting it on others live or releasing recordings thereof.

[fluffymormegil]

One of the finest proponent of music nobody else can stand is of course William "Whitehouse" Bennett, who releases such music because he despises humanity.

[reddragdiva]

Yeah, but Whitehouse achieves art. Two hours of noodly prog isn't revenge on the neighbours the way two hours of Whitehouse is.

musical back-stabbing software

[almadsfeika]

Sigh. Here I am, another annoyed musician. Good to know I have fellow annoyed musician friends!

Re: musical back-stabbing software

[reddragdiva]

Oh, I'm much worse. I'm an annoyed rock critic. "Those who can, do. Those who can't, do rock music. Those who can't do rock music, get promos."

Re: musical back-stabbing software

[almadsfeika]

I saw that ;)
My take would be similar (about something else in my life).
Those who can, do. Those who can't, make abysmal attempts. Those who can't even attempt - become politicians or teach in schools. OK, some politicians and teachers have 'half' a clue...