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It's a nice mental reframe, instead of thinking that you are not playing, to thinking I am playing silence or a rest.
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The Lost Art Of Surrender makes me want to hear more of this approach from you. It has a dark vibe and just the right amount of distorsion and industrial edge while you as a composer can be heard through the synthlines, the treatment of the drums and the phrases for the vocals.
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Well said, as always. Sequencers, arpeggiators, looping, and beat-making in general, foster perpetual ostinato structures and, as you suggest, an additive process. We get stuck in the loop and we have to interrupt the continuum to create different forms and narratives. I'm in a constant state of tension with my machines because they do prioritize sequencing and looping. Not that it's a bad thing. It's super fun, and it's a great way to discover new ideas. I can get lost for hours just messing with sound design, knob twisting and automating modulation. But I'm currently trying out a different lens, viewing sequences as episodes or middle ground (like orchestral ostinatos) rather than as foundations or scaffolds. It's liberating.
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I'm imagining someone trying to tell a story without breathing, and then remembering to be alive in the moment while they tell it
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This principle is what got me into bonsai
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Great stuff. I appreciate your application of classical training to electronic music. Staying tuned for more.
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WOW - Your "Lost Art of Surrender" track "Departure" sounds killa, Jameson! Liked and followed on Spotify, and excited to check out more tracks. 🤘
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On the importance of silence, I feel this quote is somewhat related: "Perfection is achieved when there's nothing left to take away" (attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry).
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Love this. I often improvise long pieces with multiple synths (with added live looping) and the next step is always the question "what else does it need to feel finished?" Well, it often needs less things and I have to constantly remind myself of that. Also, the clip of your upcoming "haven't had time to work on this in two years" project sounds fantastic. Something about the vocal treatment and musical choices in that clip gave me strong Peter Gabriel "Darkness" vibes (and that's a great thing, if you haven't experienced it--the studio version from the 2002 "UP" album, specifically). Well done!
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I think of the "Lost Art Of Surrender" often, as of something I could do eventually.
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Dynamics - they're pretty neat.
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I’ve been soaking up all of your knowledge for the past two weeks. You’re definitely one of the better (if not the best) music YouTuber I’ve come across. Really appreciate your no bs approach to everything. Thanks for making this stuff available. Also cool to see a fellow southerner in the music production/composition space 🙌🏼
Can’t wait for your course to drop ☺️
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We all gotta admit he's extremely talented and skilled on the keys, almost digusting 😅
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Way back in the day Victor Wooten used to have lessons on his website. He might still, not sure. One that stuck out to me was how he described silence as the most important and impactful note and how learning silence is the key to creating grooves and musical passages. How all scales can be transformed with a simple interesting usage of rest. I just looked up a book review for a recent book, and sure enough the summary is "a key part is how silence in a groove can push your musicianship forward."
Just a nice contrast that the bass player that can slap arpeggios at like 250bpm tells people to study silence.
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Never Knowingly Undersold, as your reflections are utterly fab!
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Although I'm not really a composer, per se... I've used this technique in a lot of situations, most frequently when writing (documents). I have been using mind maps for decades and the idea is to just 'brainstorm' and let the associations run free, no filtering, no selection.. but only for a short time. Then, come back and bring like things together.. start to develop the main points (themes, maybe) and then 'slice'n'dice' to simplify everything down to the basics. You then have a lot of already sorted, 'suitable' ideas to 'enhance' the main points (or 'motifs', themes, etc in music) and so you build the document (music) to the point where it 'perfectly' suits your purpose.
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The same concept applies at a micro and macro level. Little rests between small phrases as well as large rests at the end of a Prechorus before chorus section hits.
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Couldn't agree more. A bit of 'smaller' or 'nothing/rests' is always something people try to use in 'popular music' circles where they call it a 'hook'. Great hooks can literally give tunes that 'magic' to go straight to the top of the charts.
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I bought a Polybrute and then watched your video about how that is wrong. I agree with you about the Prophet 6. Now I use my polybrute as a keyboard controller for my prophet 6 desktop.
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@michaelkonomos
6 months ago
Love this. As a visual artist, we learned in school a lot about "negative space" and how it defines what you show on a page as much as what you are actually drawing.
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