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Compressed Screaming

Posted 01-10-2013 at 09:16 AM by Nepsotic

That's the noise I made when I found out I'd lost all my work on a new track, I sort of screamed, but with my mouth closed, resulting in a strange monster noise and a red face.
I was actually quite proud of this track, too. It was like old school dubstep.

But I bet none of you here will appreciate this kind of music, anyway.

Something compppletely unrelated, today when I got home, my mum asked me to go out and get some gas and electric. She didn't have any money on her so I had to use mine, which was annoying because I wanted a MIDI controller.

Anyway, in Iceland I went to find some sugar, but they didn't have any, so I walked out of the shop without anything and everybody was staring at me, it was making me feel really stressed out, and I started tearing up which was weird.
Anyway, then I went to the off-license to get an energy drink (they say you can make better synths with an energy drink, not a girly drink like water, then you'll just make shit sounds).
I bought the drink and as I was walking out the dude said something to another person, and I thought he was talking to me, so I said "Sorry?", and he was like "I was talking to him" and I died a little inside.
To make matters worse on the way home I got in the way of some girl and we did that thing where you both go to move out of the way, but you go the same way. I apologised and then that stressed out twitchy eye teary thing started to happen again.
This is why I don't like going out in public. Today was a bad day.

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	You should do something about your anxiety. You're taking everyday occurences and tying a lot of reactionary emotions to them. You need to learn this on your own, but by and large people forget about these things you're worrying about nanoseconds after they stop happening. What exactly is 'old school dubstep'? Fart sounds and WUB WUB WUB from 2009?
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 10:43 AM by Mac Sirloin Updated 01-10-2013 at 11:04 AM by Mac Sirloin

	Old farts always smells better according to Nepsotic
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 11:54 AM by Varrok

	The entirety of Iceland was out of sugar?
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 12:23 PM by OANST

	I think it's understandable. When I think of Iceland, sugar is not the first thing I come up with
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 12:53 PM by Varrok

	What a backwards ass country. No wonder they don't have the energy to bomb little nations of brown people.
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 01:04 PM by OANST

	I think they might find that calling a tad offensive. ...I mean they already got used to 'niggers'
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 01:09 PM by Varrok

	I can barely tell what you are trying to say with that wording. I'm going to assume that you called people from Iceland "niggers," and move on with my day, giving you my full agreement, and support.
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 01:29 PM by OANST

	Yes.
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 01:33 PM by Varrok

	Ice niggers. Amirite?
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 02:45 PM by STM

	Too far, man. Too far.
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 07:00 PM by Sekto Springs

	Scraptrapman's a monster.
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 07:21 PM by Mac Sirloin

	No better than a nigger, that Scraptrapman.
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 09:00 PM by Daxter King

	You should take some heavily compressed compressed screaming and make a dubstep beat out of it. No, really. It could be interesting.
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 09:22 PM by Mr. Bungle

	You should write real music.
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 09:51 PM by Phylum

	You don't consider dubstep music because you dislike it?
	Posted 01-10-2013 at 10:09 PM by Nepsotic

Exactly.

What I really meant by that was branch out. Don't limit yourself to one style. I have to write a few pieces in composition this year and I'm determined to make one of them in the style of the Beach Boys just because it's something I've never done before (I also have a man-crush on Brian Wilson because musically everything he touches is amazing). Recently I bought an Animal Collective album and a Shostakovitch CD because I want to get a better understanding of why their music has so much energy. Play around stylistically and your stuff will get better. Writing music in other styles helps you understand how other people structure music and how you can apply that to the style you love.

Or something.

Posted 01-10-2013 at 11:06 PM by Phylum

	I agree with one of these Phylum's post, the other one I didn't read
	Posted 01-11-2013 at 02:57 AM by Varrok

	Yeah, I have done othe genres. Electro, DnB, Chillstep, House etc.
	Posted 01-11-2013 at 07:55 AM by Nepsotic

	What about non-electronical music?
	Posted 01-11-2013 at 08:14 AM by Varrok

	But have you tried making music?
	Posted 01-11-2013 at 08:53 AM by OANST

Yeah, I have done othe genres. Electro, DnB, Chillstep, House etc.

Lisa: I hate to be a killjoy, but do you really think we can play something other than "Stars and Stripes Forever?"

Largo: Very well, Lisa, what rousing Sousa march would you have us play?

Lisa: Well, I thought for once we could play a song that wasn't written by Sousa.

Largo: You mean something... just... arranged by Sousa?

Posted 01-11-2013 at 09:01 AM by Sekto Springs

	Oh yes, I'm with Sekto on this one
	Posted 01-11-2013 at 09:18 AM by Varrok

This is why learning music fundamentals is a must. If you can write a good melody, then orchestration/instrumentation of that melody is pretty much irrelevant. Look at how many techno/8-bit remixes or death metal covers of famous songs/movie themes are on Youtube. Despite the drastic change in format and genre, the prevailing motifs still kick ass.

This is the problem with dubstep. It's completely locked down to it's own genre. It's not flexible, you can't hum it, you can't really write it, it doesn't transcend, so it's not memorable. I guess that's also sort of the appeal, that it's this inscrutable, ephemeral psuedo-musical entity that doesn't follow "the rules". But it's not complex or diverse, and that's why it has about as much staying power as a snowball in Tahiti.

Dubstep is at best a good exercise in learning how to manipulate and mix sound, but it's a poor substitute for music.

Posted 01-11-2013 at 10:07 AM by Sekto Springs

My issue with it is that it's contrived, and that speaks a lot to what Sekto was just talking about. I don't like music that sets out to be a certain type of music, something that confines itself to a genre just for the sake of being in the genre. That's why I don't like the majority of the music I don't like, though. I just feel like most music is very clearly made to be something instead of being made to be. I like my art to be more organic than that.

Posted 01-11-2013 at 10:23 AM by OANST

	Also, I try to be open-minded, but something has to be said for the fact that every dubstep fan I've met in real life was either a complete moron or under the age of 25. This tells me that dubstep is gimmicky junkfood music for the young and the ignorant, and that's fine, so long as you acknowledge that's exactly what it is and do not pretend your musical tastes are revolutionary or exotic.
	Posted 01-11-2013 at 10:42 AM by Sekto Springs

The thing is, dubstep, for me at least, is a tool. It's something you use to hype yourself up at a party or to get pumped whilst weight lifting. Sometimes I even use it whilst studying though that's sometimes counter-productive. It's not something you can really enjoy like you would Audience With the Pope or the Radetzky Marsch...whatever floats your boat.

I wouldn't even define it as music really, I don't know what it is though. Noise. But you can't say it's bad because you don't like it (that's not aimed at anyone in particular by the way). The snobbery with music is unbearable. 'Oh, you like those noises? You're an idiot, the noises I listen to are much better'.

Posted 01-11-2013 at 10:52 AM by STM

	Your logic is flawed. You say that it's not music and then you say that it's not fine to call it a bad music.
	Posted 01-11-2013 at 10:56 AM by Varrok

I think anything can be music. I've mentioned before how I bought an album made completely of sounds from a microphone buried in the ground. I just don't don't like contrived music.

And no, I don't think that burying a microphone in the ground to create an album is contrived. Those people had no idea what they were going to end up with, and that shows the kind of joy, and love of sound that should be seen a whole lot more in music.

Posted 01-11-2013 at 11:14 AM by OANST

Dubstep is one of those things that exists specifically to be blasted in nightclubs with humongous subwoofers that make your bones vibrate. I could appreciate it on that level, that's the gimmick, but I can't comprehend what's so enjoyable about it outside of that kind of setting. Listening to dubstep on your shitty little earbuds while riding the bus or writing an essay just sounds like a bad time.

Like it's been said, the music is locked down. It has to be played a certain way in a certain setting to be effective. That seems like the opposite of being creative.

I'm being unfair. Nep is young and he has a lot of exploration to do yet. If he endeavors to explore, that is. This may just be a phase. I know I went through more than a couple.

Posted 01-11-2013 at 11:17 AM by Sekto Springs

Updated 01-11-2013 at 11:24 AM by Sekto Springs

	I'm not even talking about Nep. Good for him for wanting to create music. I'm just talking about music.
	Posted 01-11-2013 at 11:44 AM by OANST

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