From marmoset Sent Mon, Oct 19th 1998, 12:59
From marmoset Sent Mon, Oct 19th 1998, 12:59
Che wrote: > When someone says something is "well produced", they > should make sure the music's not out of tune or dissonant (unless > dissnonance is desired). I was going to ask about this. I can think of many artists who seem to use dissonance deliberately as an elemental part of their sound. For example, there's very pronounced (and deliberate, I think) oscillator drift happening in a lot of Boards of Canada material (which contributes to that whole 70's filmstrip / Logan's Run vibe, IMO.) Can you stand to listen to their stuff? I can remember discovering Sonic Youth (around the time of _Evol_) back in the eighties and having a really hard time with their tunings until it sort of "clicked" for me and I've loved them ever since. What about tracks featuring mellotrons (which seem to be fundamentally incapable of maintaining consistent pitch) -- can you listen to them? I picked up a Silver Apples disc earlier this year which is really fascinating stuff, but the homemade synths are all over the place tonally, and now that you mention it I suppose the "queasiness" factor is maybe one reason I don't play it more often. > think the worst case I've ever heard was an Ultramarine track that sampled > the Beagle's "One Of These Nights" (Saratoga, I think. Left a bad taste in > my mouth, but my friend Cam insists that I give them another shot.). I'm familiar with that track -- there's vocal scat sample that's wildly out of tune with the rest of the track, but I always figured it was deliberate, since it was so far off. > Me, I tend to prefer > 8 notes per key (out of 12) and no "non-integer" notes. Your mileage may > vary, and that's cool. Just warn me in a review, ok? I'll try, assuming I can tell. :) -d.w.