I mean, at some point stuff is going to sound very similar.
Looney4Clooney
in terms of western tonality, late 19th century,
modal and non functional progressions, 1960.
same with melody, As i've said before, the only thing changing is aesthetic. For the last 40 years.
Vernon Wanderer
Threads on this forum have become so lately..
jayxthekoolest
quote:
Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
in terms of western tonality, late 19th century,
modal and non functional progressions, 1960.
same with melody, As i've said before, the only thing changing is aesthetic. For the last 40 years.
What about Avicii Levels??
Raphie
Same, in that song he just doesnt transition in 4ths
Looney4Clooney
musicologists have been puzzled by this for a while but they realized this progression is a tone row whose pitches are taken from the first letter of the first 12 pages of a gay erotica best seller and quantized to he nearest pitch index. The row is then inverted and retrograded. This supplies a weighting system which then assigns in a some what aleatoric way the baseline.
The overlying harmonies are done similarly except the tone row is changed using the second letter. Then 3rd.
rather brilliant.
re Raphie, i don't think he was being serious.
Raphie
My bad, confused Avici levels, with TA troll levels :D
Sykonee
Most of the biggest pop hits have recycled the same four chord progression for decades now. Like L4C said, it's all about aesthetics now, how they're used within a song or their accompanying lyrics.
Stef
quote:
Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
aesthetic.
Subtle
Maybe, but we will never run out of rhythms.
pointPi
No, we will never. Technically, there is an unimaginable amount of possible melodies, harmonies and rhythms, but we tend hold ourselves to an extremely limited case of them. This video explains it perfectly:
Looney4Clooney
microtonal music is not going to appeal to 99.99% of people. Everything has been done.
