So, just to start off, I would like to go into a few thoughts on what it is about music that is so compelling. Why has music always been so important to us? Why does it affect us so much, and how can it make us feel in a certain way?
Since the dawn of time, we have had music. Wether it was the cavemen gathering around the fire, banging bones together or on a streched mammoth skin, or tibetian munks forming amazing sounds with their vocal chords. Music is and has always been something that we have tried our best to develop this field and to develop our talent in our own performance. As our understanding of sound has developed, and our technological journey at the same time accelerated at an even faster pace, the tools for making spectacular sounds have been made available for anyone that wish to. If we go back not more than a hundred years, we were at the beginning of the era where sound recording became a bigger part of the industry. Before that the art of making music was more dominated by the "live performance" where a person creating music would have to use his own musical performance in the distribution of the music. Back then, people were in a bigger way, forced to use their own or their closest friends or families music talents in order to have every-day music or song. But as the technology has made distribution and consuming of music internationally available in the blink of an eye, the need for every person to use his ability to create music in order to have access, is gone.
Now, I am not saying that music has become a smaller part of peoples lives, quite the oposite. People consume music at stunning rate. You will see people constantly with their ipod's on, when traveling, reading, working out or by the computer. Many people have made music a big part of their lives, and without actually thinking about it, finding the answers through their emotional needs through music. This brings me to the part about the feelings that we can get from music. Most musicians should know the difference between major and minor notes. Even if you don't know that you know, you do :) (waow, that was a hardcore sentence. Even I had to read it twice) To say it in the hard way for anyone that doesn't play the piano, if you are in the C-scale, the minor keys would be the black ones. Lets say that you are listening to a song, and you hear that the notes themselves sounds "sad" as many people would say, not the dynamic of the sound, but the notes themselves. A chord is being used that contains a note that is in the minor scale, transforming the chord to minor and making the feel of the note, even if it has 2 out of 3 keys in the same spot as you would with the major chord, sad. Well, sad is not the right word, but some people would put it that way. However, what happens, when you hear this; lets say in a movie - you will automaticly assume that something sad or bad is going to happen. The sound itself has put an emotion in you, or changed the way you look at things. The same thing also goes when you are hearing songs or music outside of the movie realm. You are walking to the store, and you have your iPod on. Chances are that what you are listening to is selected by you, weather you thought about it or if it was subconcious: Because you want to animate a feeling trough it.
Noone in their right mind would wake up with a hangover and start blasting speed-metal on 90 dB on their speakers. That's a bit random to say, because the reason for that would be that it's ... loud.. but there is a point in there: If you don't want to get psyched you would put on something less intense. You want to endulge your own feelings with the music. If you are sad you put on some sobby alanis morisette. When you are happy and had too much Red Bull, you put on some happydance song that makes it bubble inside of you.
So Music may definitely change or enhance feelings, and it is important to take a second to analyze how you are affected by different music. How we react is partially subjective due to personal preference in music, but chances are that someone else is feeling the same way about things. You can and should definitely use this to your advantage when it comes to making music.
torsdag 3. februar 2011
Introduction to the music maker dedicated blog
Welcome to The Music Maker. This is a blog about making music, or any of the aspects of this lifestyle. It may be live events, recording, or just playing around with midi mouseclicking in FL studio in order to make music. Some great things have been done using the simplest of tools, and it has been seen again and again that the art of making music is all about the feelings that you are trying to express trough it, not how much money you have for equipment or access to great talents in your friend base. Creating pieces of art through forming sounds and making them fit together will give you the satisfaction of accomplishment and to quote some great musicians that I don't personally favor, but who has a great point:
"make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sing along."
"make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sing along."
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