I don’t know. I make hip-hop. I make techno. I used to like them. I like Rock’n’Roll. I’m a product of the nineties and eighties. go figure. Blah. Blah. Blah. But don’t you get sick of the same 4/4 beat sometimes? I don’t know. These times we are living in are so absurd, monotonous like the 4/4 beat, and at the same time overwhelming with the amount of data and processing that goes into it. Oh sure do an odd time signature, just to spice it up. DONE BEFORE! I get so sick of electronics sometimes amplifying things and looping it, even sick of electric guitars, and am sick of these people cutting up, and doing M.I.T. super-algorithms to crappy unoriginal 4/4 ideas. Haven’t we lost our souls to the machine yet? Haven’t we lost touch with our monkey primordial selfs? Or do we proceed to get implants and make life and the world even more bizzarre, absurd, and cut-throat than it is? I don’t know. Maybe one of the few cool things that spawned out of this technological spamhole we call the internet is Renoise. Take that to armageddon and kling-on it homeboy…
I understand what you mean, i´ve done music for about 14 years and i am just like you greatly infuensed by the eighties & nineties. The thing is that everything in music is made with electronics and computers nowdays. But if you get tired of how music sounds this days and these 4/4 beats and “lack” of orginal ideas, i think you just need a complete break from music… When i feel like you do i just quit untill i feel ready to make music again…
I can dig it, I’m getting kinda burnt out on choppy breaks and piss-thin synth sounds lately. All I can be arsed to listen to at the moment is the Inception OST CD over and over again…
There’s a few Renoisers about, myself included, who regularly explore worlds beyond 4/4 dance and groove beats. There are some fun ways to explore beatless and grooveless music, focusing on other elements such as texture, melody, dynamics, theme, micro and macro movements. A bit of grazing in sonic fields afar from your own will start the process.
A tip I like to give myself: Does my song still sound decent without all the percussion?
Arbitrary use or disuse of ANY element of music can easily lead to boredom. Boredom for both composer and listener alike. Just as much as their is a boring glut of four-on-the-floor dance music with arbitrary usage of methods born of fashionable trends, there is no shortage of ‘avant’ and exploratory music that falls into limp repetition of methods that prop up cliques. Great music struts the paradox of both giving satisfaction to the listener at the same time as provoking and challenging the listener. That’s a fair challenge.
Hello, thanks for all your replies sincere or otherwise. I know I have a tendecy to spout off the top of the cuff, I just wanted to start a discussion. Anyhow, I just discovered Vangelis which is exactly what I was looking for.
Take care in the contectium,
-A retired bladerunner
