Producing visually without sound until you get acceptable arangement

[Naer]

I feel I get exhausted when I'm always previewing sequences, so I compose without sound, then see how it goes. It's a skill, an art

Thoughts?

[Compyfox]

So essentially, you're saying that you go the "late Beethoven" approach.
He turned his "skill" (mathematically score writing during his time of being deaf) into an art.


If it get's you there, it's definitely cool.
But personally, that is not my type of workflow.

[camsr]

I don't think it's useful?

[Sendy]

If that's what gets you to where you want to be, more power to you. I can certainly see how composing without instant aural feedback could help to build musical muscle. I've made short piano pieces using something approaching this method, but I couldn't apply it to my main music, because the sounds are just as important if not more so than the actual notes used, and the sound design ties into the arrangement and composition, etc...

[murnau]

you can turn off the screens as well and the light just like stevie wonder.

[Jace-BeOS]

http://crapart.spacebar.org

There was an article about a contest or experiment to write songs without listening to them, but i can't find that any more. This link was the best i could do

[enroe]

... so I compose without sound, then see how it goes. It's a skill, an art
Thoughts?

What a fine idea!

You don't need expensive monitors, you don't need fatiguing headphones,
you even don't need room treatment. It can be a great step ahead ...
... and as long as you avoid to turn on the sound you cannot be disappointed!

[DocAtlas]

You can always turn off the computer and use pencil and paper.

[Sendy]

... so I compose without sound, then see how it goes. It's a skill, an art
Thoughts?

What a fine idea!

You don't need expensive monitors, you don't need fatiguing headphones,
you even don't need room treatment. It can be a great step ahead ...
... and as long as you avoid to turn on the sound you cannot be disappointed!

Sound isn't required to create or evaluate a composition. Modern music is so focussed on the sound and so unfocussed on the actual music, that the idea, put to someone with a modern mindset, would probably seem absurd, but it's true.

[Jace-BeOS]

i think a person would have to be able to read music first. Then there's the blocks and piano roll stuff. Can you read that?

i'll never be a deaf composer if i lose my hearing (which is why i protect what i have left), because i can't and will never read music.

[Sendy]

i think a person would have to be able to read music first. Then there's the blocks and piano roll stuff. Can you read that?

i'll never be a deaf composer if i lose my hearing (which is why i protect what i have left), because i can't and will never read music.

Graphic notation and piano-roll style is just as effective as conventional notation. People who lose their hearing can also still "sense" the lower part of the audio spectrum as vibrations, which over time I should think becomes quite keenly trained.

The idea of losing my hearing is an absolute nightmare, though. Don't even want to think about it :s

[Jace-BeOS]

i think a person would have to be able to read music first. Then there's the blocks and piano roll stuff. Can you read that?

i'll never be a deaf composer if i lose my hearing (which is why i protect what i have left), because i can't and will never read music.

Graphic notation and piano-roll style is just as effective as conventional notation. People who lose their hearing can also still "sense" the lower part of the audio spectrum as vibrations, which over time I should think becomes quite keenly trained.

The idea of losing my hearing is an absolute nightmare, though. Don't even want to think about it :s

i hear you there!

DOH!