Digital Music as CGI

luka

luka

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luka said:
me and mvuent were trying maybe not very successfully to describe it as it applied to electroacoustic music a while back
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phenomenology of electroacoustic music

Nothing like a Liam thread to get the lads talking. No one wants that electroacoustic weirdo music anymore. Give us a packet of benson gold and six stellas, we're reliving our teenage years. electroacoustic music is very different from conventional music. but what is it different for? what do...
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mvuent

mvuent

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luka said:
me and mvuent were trying maybe not very successfully to describe it as it applied to electroacoustic music a while back
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:mad:

what's interesting to me about the audio animation of newer dance music and hip hop in particular is how there's been this sort of unspoken arms race towards more solid, satisfyingly compressed sounds. stuff made with drum samples in a DAW 10-15 years ago often sounds annoyingly thin compared to stuff from the past few years; the evolution has been very dramatic.

this musical value sort falls between the cracks of normal spoken values: it's not about having more intricate production like IDM, and music that's perfected mastered in a traditional sense (e.g. steely dan) also totally lacks this hyperreal punchiness. it's not even about playing with space like in grm stuff. it perhaps has more to do with those vids of "oddly satisfying" sounds or even asmr than any of that.
 
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"Physical" Sounds

Obviously all sound is vibration/physical, but I mean stuff which sounds physical beyond being produced by physical instruments or vocals or whatever. I'm talking stuff like Bernard Parmegiani where it almost sounds like a marble rolling around the inside of your skull, like a physical object...
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Cartoon Physics/The Revenge of the Tangible

Golden-age Loony Toons is amazing because of its ontological malleability when it comes to the laws of physics. A character will be squashed flat by an anvil and then roll around like a coin before popping back as though they're a balloon filling with air. physical properties shift...
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mvuent

mvuent

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mvuent said:
what's interesting to me about the audio animation of newer dance music and hip hop in particular is how there's been this sort of unspoken arms race towards more solid, satisfyingly compressed sounds.
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the problem is that this possibly comes at the expense of fluidity / malleability. if you spent all your time getting the compression and layer of the kick and bass right, you're probably to end up with something pretty simple and restrained with it. whereas if you already have a break and think it basically sounds good enough, you can focus more energy on fucking with the basic pattern.
 
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Corpsey said:
Those David Attenborough documentaries are in some ways high-minded but the main point of them is to really flex the power of UHD cameras.
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Those generic clips for testing monitors. They can literally just point the camera at a lizard sat on a tree and its skin looks so amazing you're riveted.

 
wektor

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mvuent said:
the problem is that this possibly comes at the expense of fluidity / malleability. if you spent all your time getting the compression and layer of the kick and bass right, you're probably to end up with something pretty simple and restrained with it. whereas if you already have a break and think it basically sounds good enough, you can focus more energy on fucking with the basic pattern.
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guess that's where (european) hardcore came from, man this kick sounds masssive, why would the tune need anything else?
still awaiting for purely kickdrum 4/4 based music that would only change the timbre of the kick slightly every 16 bars
no obnoxious fx
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I experienced this when I got binoculars at Christmas. It magnifies surfaces so much that you see things more vividly than you could usually. But at the same time the effect is weirdly flattening.
 
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