Well, how I rate any music or art work is, if my big toe pops up or if I get goose bumps on my arms, then I know for sure that it was done not not only with talent, but also their emotions, and I guess that this song just didn't do that for me, it was good but not great (in my humble opinion). Being a former musician myself (not really) her notes and words are not that clever.

Impressive. Still it's just a speech, which means a collection of some beautifully worded platitudes.

Searching I even found an encyclopedia of them:

Roughly, yeah. The only thing I was underlining is that I often found speeches just pathetic and trite. They are words to move the masses, bible rhetorics, politicians' illusions, empty phrases. Music (commercial one, or usually the most visible artists) could be like that too, dull, ripetitive, non original, but you have to follow 'your feelings'. But I think the major difference is that while music (except things like r&b songs...) generally tries to convey emotions and tell a story, while instead a speech tries to sway you in the way of thinking of the speaker.

I agree, but music is often used exactly the same way, and to just as pathetic a result.
This speech was from a comedian, and neither trite nor shallow, but powerful and all encompassing. A message to everyone from decades ago that still has meaning today. One that no song I've ever heard could hold a candle to.
Of course, everyone responds to such things uniquely, and I'd be a fool to think everyone would respond to it the same way.

Get a vst like magic carpet or x-wof and choose an oriental scale... you can make that stuff in 30 seconds. There are also a ton of user-made automatic harmony improvisators on reaktor.

Anyway you like programming, why don't you give a look to how other people posts flash objects? You embedded the address of the page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tatfJQeRmMU), not the address of the object itself (http://www.youtube.com/v/tatfJQeRmMU).

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Well, the lyrics don't do anything for me. That piano sound on the other hand...

 

I don't expect many people to know how the Korg X5 works but it can probably get there. It is menu diving hell though. Samples of real instruments, in fact, hundreds of them. More than a dozen pianos and each sample is all 88 notes right off the strings.

 

I can use two samples at the same time but at what ratio? Could be 60:40, 70:30 or something else. Because the samples come from the strings, the resonance has to be dealt with seperately. I have two effect processors onboard. For musicians, effect processors can be dialed in to settings if you know where you are going but you have lots of choices to make along the way. With two of them, it just makes matters way harder.

 

NMCP, I have managed some patches that get close to the European cathedrals. Sadly, I only have three MIDI capable keyboards, so Freiburg catherdral ain't gonna happen. That would take five keyboards and fairly creative MIDI programming to set up.

 

On a more positive note, E. Power Bigss was a friend of my father and he dropped by a few times when he was playing in NYC. He did amazing work at Freiburg mant times.

Yeah, but do these styles have something in common? Not the genre perhaps, but an emotion that they evoke? I listen to various stuff too, except it sounds similar because it has a similar emotional charge, less or more melancholic. That sort of thing is very common in chillout/psybient community, but diffcult to find in mainstream music. It takes just a few seconds to tell if something sounds right. Analyzing a piece of music for the keys would take hours. I think it is the D minor key and similar ones that do the magic. If you want to make me happy, get me something like this, regardless if it has electronics or beats or just piano. AiGS would surely like that song.

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I recommend you to look at this list. Here you can see how different neurons our hearing center are wired to different emotions. Knowing the person's music tells you what kind of inner gratification that person wants. This is almost like mind reading. And then there is influencing people with music. Isn't that wonderful? My dream is to do a DJ gig and play some powerfully hypnotic music in front of a large crowd. Alternatively, delivering a political speech, while having some musician softly coloring the uttered thoughts in the background, that could have a great effect too. Not just on my ego, I mean.

Then there are universal listeners, who don't care what's playing. They can hang out with anyone and avoid most problems with differing tastes in music, which can be an end of relationships. I suspect such people are extroverts, introverts would see so much variety as intrusion in their inner world. So this is my guess. Either you can really listen to everything, or you pick a particular set of keys or emotions out of a wide range of genres. The second option is less social, but isn't it better to achieve deep and very trippy states of consciousness without having to consult your local dealer?

Luminon, I think you nailed it right square on the head.

While I listen to all styles of music, there are only certain types of songs and artists, within each style, that totally speak to me.

I had not thought of that. They all produce, the same effect.

They give me a hypnotic feeling of joy and immersion in their sound. I literally get "lost " in the song.

Now, when friends of mine, look at my CD collection and see The Rolling Stones, Lil Wayne, Waylon Jennings, Stone Temple Pilots, Johann Pachebel (Pachebel's Canon in D major is one of my favorites) Beethoven, Vivaldi, Slayer, and groups like The Misfits and the Sex Pistols on my bookshelf, I won't feel so awkward in trying to explain all of it. Of course, most of my friends accept that I am a music eccentric anyways.

Actually Luminon, from the player perspective there is not much of a simple/complicated deal. The biggest deal is on the back end which is what I was talking about. Sticking with keyboard instruments for the moment, the difference of which you speak is in how the sounds are generated. I don't know how curious you are on that but if you have questions, I can get back to you.

 

As far as there being theraputic value to music, I don't think that one machine or another is all that important so much as understanding that music in general is quite powerful for us evolved pattern seeking critters.

 

I routinely look on youtube for music from other countries. It matters not that I can't understand the words so much as hearing the sounds. Chinese music is interesting because their instruments are as different from our European style stuff as physics will allow. Some variant of the bagpipes exist in nearly every culture.

 

Oddly, despite the fact that a third of Americans are Scots, bagpipe concerts are few and far between. Even so, I have had the priviledge to be present at a world record of (it may be broken now) massed bands of 38 marching bands all playing Amazing Grace. Typing in a Scot accent here, If that di nae move ye, ye di nay got a soul.

 

Since I have you on this, there is an Eastern European instrument that I have seen that look interesting but I don't know what it is called. You can't really do google shopping if you don't know what you are looking for. The type example that I have in played by a member or the Red Army Choir. Look at the following video about 20 seconds in and tell me if you can identify the gigantic bass lute thing.

 

 

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Yah, I would love to have one. Now that I have a clue, I can do some web searches.

 

The early searches have not gone anywhere useful though. All that I am getting from probable vendors are the small ones.

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Luminon, I don't know your language. In the future that could happen but not today.

 

As far as instrument size goes, there are more variables then you perhaps are thinking. String length is critical. Most but not all of mine are close to 90cm.

 I am a huge fan of Valentina Lisitsa

This version of Rachmaninoff's "Little Red Riding Hood" blows my mind

Just look at the passion and the intensity she plays.

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Astounding!

 

DC happens to be a six hour train ride, so it tends to be pretty much a surgical strike. I have never done the Cathedral. Usually, I do the Smithsonian though.

 

Spaceship one is about as big as a minivan. I have stood next to the world's first supercomputer and I am taller than it.

 

I wish that I had pics but when kilted, one must decide between the camera and smokes.

Dude, did you just try to outwierd me on the internet?

Been there, done that.

 DOH. You took my Tanak Tunak Tun. Yatta .... hmmm .... impressive

 

 

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A new challenger appears.  It can't do the embed right but it is into Aphex Twin.  It fails to get it right.