Are you a musician?

[cryophonik]

Well, I play bass, keys, some guitar, played trumpet through high school, have a degree in theory/composition, used to play and sing in many bands along with some session work. But, now I just make electronic music in my home studio, so I guess I *used to be* a musician?

[camsr]

I like to let my DAW be the musician, I am merely the audience :X

[ghettosynth]

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Well, of course you are right. My farts are also musical. In fact, they are pleasant in multiple dimensions. They are certainly complex, evolving, and dare I say, magnificent?

I would be delighted to prove this by rendering a piece that was composed entirely from my farts. Could someone loan me a microphone?

Definitely the makings of a signature piece

Right?!? Now who's going to loan me that mic, BTW, it should probably come with a splash guard, um, I mean pop filter, yeah, it should come with a "pop" filter.

[pekbro]

I would be delighted to prove this by rendering a piece that was composed entirely from my farts. Could someone loan me a microphone?

Now who's going to loan me that mic, BTW, it should probably come with a splash guard, um, I mean pop filter, yeah, it should come with a "pop" filter.

Certainly, such a project, would be an "odor" of magnitude beyond
anything, anybody else is doing around here.

[Jace-BeOS]

I have no formal training on any instruments (mostly because i cannot learn notation and no teachers wanted to teach me without notation). I'm most comfortable with keys, but I'm not a "player". I cannot perform with anything but my voice, and I've only done that once for an audition (went well, other than my writing not being a fit for the band). I will try to play any instrument i can get my hands on and i would love to own many more than i currently have. I make music using them, but i wouldn't ever say i can play them.

But i do make actual music. From scratch, even. Sometimes with actual physical instruments that aren't keys.

For whatever this means to your inquiry of "are you a musician"...

[xoxos]

it's sort of an ethel the aardvark goes quantity surveying thing

[jancivil]

[camsr]

wtf how did this get in hpc

[jancivil]

Born in HPC, moved to Babylonia, I mean Everything Else.
disoriented, are we?

[tapiodmitriyevich]

As a consumer, I am coming from a dual background. Acid house, electronic, IDM, that route on the one side and on the other classical music... eg. Shostakovich as my favourite composer. There's a lot of parallels in music styles.
I write at good-music-guide.com forum as well as on WATMM.

I learned and still learn an instrument since 6 years. The clarinet. Because I wanted to know an instrument, learn to read/write sheet music, think like a musician, know what a dotted note is, circle of fifths,,, such things.
And: The clarinet is a finicky monster at times.

I really wish to learn piano playing as it helps in DAW sessions, I don't like piano roll composing atm, because often it leads me to more unpredictable and random results. But I want to get MY IDEAS straight into the DAW.

[xoxos]

thread title ought to be, do you have dangerous ideas? or maybe, do you have any trace of substance whatsoever?

[ghettosynth]

I just want to add that I also know what a dotted note is...anybody else?

[Rappo Clappo]

Yup. I play cauliflower.

[xoxos]

cauliflower ear hahaha. prefer the beetroot song tbh.

specialisation is for those in sects :p still propogating my interpretation of macross zero as you can estimate the decline of a civilisation by the amount of people stationed as "memetic production". steering this culture straight to hell but the blinders are really comfortable and expertly crafted eh kids.

"music has many functions. i am not one of them."

[kinwie]

I just want to add that I also know what a dotted note is...anybody else?

"Teach me!"

Strange's line to the One