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Computer music of 1980s and 1990s
An interesting playlist of old video game music, with all tracks composed by David Whittaker.
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Ethics and aesthetics when dealing with first impressions
A useful method to check if something is suitable or not is to catch the very first impression, the very first imprint from the consciousness when you come into contact with something. Then examine it honestly, before any biases or preconceived notions influence your conclusions. What has already crossed our minds may be contaminated or…
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About ai… I can’t explain this to a computer
As about ai… To be honest I barely use it, although of course as a computers fan I know tech news well and have tried almost everything. The thing is, I express not the emotions of a computer but my own. I feel… these things can’t be expressed in words. Words are another level. Can…
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Philosophy of Sound
Whatever music style you create, if it’s cool, original and not banal, then it’s great and deserves to live Half-broken harmony breaks hearts and works farther than straight perfection Pure pleasure is always a bit illusionary Today, I prefer major for ambient and minor for everything else
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To feel the beauty
What is a real thing of a creator is that to be able to feel the signal among the endless stream of mess, to see and predict that reflection, to hear the one, to choose a perfect combination, to find an order, a solution Or with style… to be able to cut, to remove unnecessary. That’s…
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effortlessness
Effortlessness is the key to good quality style. It’s not just about order and neatness, but also about feeling free and unburdened. Top quality always feels easy and simple. And it is, but remember the attempts, values, focus, and experience lying behind that. With that freedom of movement, you are getting up and through.
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Operators of the mind
First track of newly released 1300p 6 – I played this melody with my fingers on a korg a few months ago… For me it’s a hypnotic tune. It’s not an arpeggio or a speed-up tune. I remember being surprised by how quickly my fingers moved. However, it wasn’t easy to find a matching bassline…
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Aesthetics is shaped by the mind
I’ve tested and noticed it countless times, and it remains true: beauty arises within the perceiver. While objectivity may create harmony and order, the essence of aesthetics is shaped by the mind. And experience, experience, experience, there is so much deep meaning in it.
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beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
It is difficult to say that it is just ugly or that this work is frankly bad (if a person made it from the heart, not to order or for the sake of money or fame). It would be more precise to say “I don’t quite understand it”, “it’s not to my current taste”, “it’s…
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wwsxs 2017, 2023, 2024
Rampant by wwsxs I made it in February-March 2023. Yesterday, I felt it’s the time to finally release it.
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Processes of creativity
Loosen up style of creator action in music production (or other art) for example when you are relaxed and you don’t care about anything, you kind of allow yourself more…. that kind of music sounds more interesting and deeper, but there’s more marriage among it. I recently came across one of my older works, from…
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Freedom and limitations
Absolute freedom is an illusion, like if transport in the city moved as everyone wanted it to – spontaneously and without rules. In movement (and life is movement), reasonable restrictions on the flow are necessary, you can’t just let everyone move freely and chaotically. The same with aesthetics and ethics where limits are needed, they…
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The two sides
In general, all forms of creative art can be divided into two categories: dark and light, i.e., warm and cool, serious deep and lucid – affirming and joyful.In short, there are two extremes of feeling and emotion, and two extremes of up or down.Black and white.Minor-major.With shades and combinations varying from one to the other.But…
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Culture, information, entertainment, style
Don’t underestimate highest importance of culture and entertainment, as it is said – “bread and circuses”, 50/50, but actually it’s about 30/70 bread/circuses. Not for nothing even monkeys have a lot of leisure – in the world and in nature in general it is not common to work yourself to zero, leisure is immanent and…
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New album by DAS
DAS – very experimental DAS by DAS
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Contours is the style
Boundaries – the definition of style.The structure of a flow.Constraints create flavor.It is not the water that gives a river its name, but its banks.
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Electricity in music and life
The cell is powered by electricity from both sides of charge, and it’s quite powerful. If we were to compare the size of an atom to that of cell, then the concentration of electricity stored there in atoms would be equal to that of a lightning bolt. Life is essentially a continuous process of transferring…
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On tastes in music
Music is subjective. What you may like, others may not. There is simply no bad music except that which is made without inspiration (for commercial gain or the pseudo-values of celebrity vanity) or without professionalism and a focus on high quality (even amateur creations are better when crafted with real originality, balanced mixes, and good…
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Groove is thing of life
With some exceptions, the groove is good only around living things (music, art, decor?), but, for example, in machines like a fan – on the metal grid, or other technical equipment (this light “wrongness,” “nonlinearity,” Dionysian touch) will feel kinda ridiculous. Why do we like that entropy effect in aesthetics? It’s natural, open, complex, like…
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Amplification of the new
I’ve recently made a small invention for myself, a method to improve the originality of melodies. When I create music or melodies I just play notes on the music keyboard to find perfection, it’s not about drawing on paper like in the past. I record them, look for the right combination and then edit. So…
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Symmetry in aesthetics
Why are rhymes appealing? It’s their symmetry. Symmetry is profound, similar to number and math, and it’s present in all aspects of the universe, from subatomic to macro cosmic. In human existence and creativity, the preference is typically around 80/20 in favor of order and symmetry. However, a small element of chaos exists within us,…
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Contemporary jazz
Jazz can be not only vintage and classic (78rpm.archive.org collection, for example) but also purely modern (a radio stream link to check). Not jazzy beats, not barely listenable avant-garde, – real jazz as we used to get it, but modern. The first thing that comes to mind is a straight beat there, more solid, bright…
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