Madison, Wisconsin, USA
wavevibrato.stag
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StoreTags: max/msp, waves, dechasmic, sine, sawtooth
Author: solryu on May 12 2008
--> 7th track in my first release- dechasmic

created from a rudimentary max patch and pretty much a live take, though I adjusted levels a bit after I recorded. usually I do a lot of splicing and dicing and layering of recordings to create a track, so I'd really appreciate input on this one in particular.
Thanks!
Comments

not exactly my thing.
if you are trying to pull the wool over our eyes, well - why?
if not, then I'd be interested to hear your motivations for this. I can appreciate abstraction taken to a certain limit, but to me this seems anti-listener. That is, although I put the effort in to listen once and keep an open mind, I wouldn't personally want to hear it again. Sorry if that sounds harsh, just being honest.
So, it sounds to me like you are stripping away rhythm, structure, melody, and even staying outside of 'traditional' frequency range - but to what end? Just to see what's left? To draw attention to those things that are missing, in an attempt to catalyze an awareness of the inherent properties of sound, or what makes a song a song? I dunno, I guess i was intrigued enough to write this response, but what do YOU get out of making this music? This is actual interest, I'm not just trying to cut you down...

I think there's some really worthwhile sound design here. Some of the hard buzzing sounds amazingly impactful. I'd love to hear this on a bad ass speaker system. You also did a nice job of keeping sounds separated, which to me, is a BIG plus.

Perhaps Subset simply finds this piece subjectively unapealing. When that happens, it's easy to think of a song as pointless. I suppose when one makes music without the conventions Subset referred to, one must be prepared to face such prejudice.

haha
I didn't say it was pointless, and I tried to convey that I was NOT prejudging it. It got me thinking, and that alone is worth something. I said off the bat that it wasn't really my thing, just meaning that it wasn't usually what I was into, not even that I didn't like it per se. I did say that it seemed 'anti-listener', which is maybe where you are getting the idea that I had already judged it as bad. I am all for throwing out conventions to see where it leads, but I was just having trouble understanding the motivation for making music such as this. Clearly solryu has put the effort in to create and release this music, so I just wanted to get some insight into where it came from. I looked at his/her emID for a website or something, but there wasn't one listed, so I just thought I'd ask directly.
Sorry, didn't mean to go off on you nicknotis, but I thought it was clear that I wasn't trying to criticize, prejudge, or insult - guess not.
Subjectively unappealing - maybe, yes. But I don't think this is grounds for dismissal - some of the best art I've heard/seen/whatever has been of the more 'difficult' variety.

ah well looks like a solryu hit-and-run.
guess I'll have to remain an outsider...


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