tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449661007778311747.post4488822714448294229..comments2023-08-26T22:33:09.804+01:00Comments on Absurd Wurld: Its Time To Talk About Synthesizers and SoundUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449661007778311747.post-4897144655396159972016-09-21T17:25:05.928+01:002016-09-21T17:25:05.928+01:00Oops, some of my long development was re-copied in...Oops, some of my long development was re-copied in the end so please discard it, sorry !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449661007778311747.post-6759307790643954182016-09-21T17:22:13.638+01:002016-09-21T17:22:13.638+01:00Point taken regarding the necessity of moving forw...Point taken regarding the necessity of moving forward, quest for originality and left field music but (to serve a nonetheless noble purpose) you're devoting one part of the article to making it sound as if, on the other hand, making conventional music is necessarily and mostly a conditionned/lazy/cynical/career move, for the sole purpose of being popular and earn as much money from it as possible, by deliberately appealing to somewhat narrow minded average listeners. Well, this has been heard before (sic) and sounds a bit condescending to me towards a good deal of people, the way I understood it at least (sorry if I got it wrong !). <br />I certainly agree with how mainstream audience (ie non music fans) behaves though, and how the industry produces and promotes things accordingly. But you are somehow implying it is the way most traditionnal musicians view things. There are certainly quite a few bad apples among "professionals" on top of the charts (and below) indeed. Nevertheless, for those few hundreds, there are countless musicians that have a profound love for pop (in the very large sense, not just the strictly marketed charts category), songs, melodies, structures, classic sounds (however much of each aspect they'll use in a particular genre). They are sincere and dedicated in trying to make their own version of it, for which they'll knowingly use more or less existing codes indeed, and without always trying too hard to be original, but definitely regardless of the fact that their output will find a substancial audience or not. Although they may, by comparison, have a better chance of gathering larger interest than experimental music will, the portion of those whose music will actually "pay the bills" nowadays is probably nearly as negligeable on a global scale and they don't deserve to have their artistry questionned IMHO, they just express it in the way they arrange familiar existing codes in perhaps a specific way, as opposed to creating new ones. <br />There will definitely be a lot of uninteresting music and failed attempts in there (as you said, that's highly subjective, also regardless of success or how cynical the composer is), but in the end that statement most probably applies to an equal degree in more experimental music.<br />As much as conventional music can be pleasingly familiar it's just perhaps also easier to spot something you don't like or you're fed up with in a given piece. In the end, for a musician, it's probably just as glorious to succeed in making a good pop song as it is to explore uncharted sonic territories with less pre existing and collective notions altering your judgement and other's. <br />Apart from that bit, that is not to say that your point wasn't important !<br />Countless musicians have a profound love for pop (in the very large sense, not just the strictly marketed charts category), songs and melodies and are sincere and dedicated in trying to make their own version of it using mostly existing codes indeed. <br />Of course some of the outcome will be uninteresting but Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449661007778311747.post-45566744012934082402016-09-21T15:55:56.677+01:002016-09-21T15:55:56.677+01:00Great article. ThanksGreat article. ThanksAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06766110380781434033noreply@blogger.com