Producing visually without sound until you get acceptable arangement
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- KVRAF
- 14658 posts since 19 Oct, 2003 from Berlin, Germany
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.
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.
- KVRAF
- 5223 posts since 20 Jul, 2010
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...
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- KVRAF
- 5564 posts since 13 Jan, 2005 from the bottom of my heart
you can turn off the screens as well and the light just like stevie wonder.
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
- KVRAF
- 6113 posts since 7 Jan, 2005 from Corporate States of America
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
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
- dysamoria.com
my music @ SoundCloud
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- KVRAF
- 2585 posts since 19 Mar, 2008 from germany
What a fine idea!Naer wrote:... so I compose without sound, then see how it goes. It's a skill, an art
Thoughts?
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!
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- KVRian
- 1166 posts since 11 Jan, 2006 from Pittsburgh
You can always turn off the computer and use pencil and paper.
- KVRAF
- 5223 posts since 20 Jul, 2010
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.enroe wrote:What a fine idea!Naer wrote:... so I compose without sound, then see how it goes. It's a skill, an art
Thoughts?
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!
http://sendy.bandcamp.com/releases < My new album at Bandcamp! Now pay what you like!
- KVRAF
- 6113 posts since 7 Jan, 2005 from Corporate States of America
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.
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.
- dysamoria.com
my music @ SoundCloud
my music @ SoundCloud
- KVRAF
- 5223 posts since 20 Jul, 2010
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.Jace-BeOS wrote: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.
The idea of losing my hearing is an absolute nightmare, though. Don't even want to think about it :s
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- KVRAF
- 6113 posts since 7 Jan, 2005 from Corporate States of America
i hear you there!Sendy wrote: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.Jace-BeOS wrote: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.
The idea of losing my hearing is an absolute nightmare, though. Don't even want to think about it :s
DOH!
- dysamoria.com
my music @ SoundCloud
my music @ SoundCloud