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baratron

Why Do We Want What We Do Not Have?

Dec 01, 2005 06:29

An, introspection at 6 o'clock in the morning. Don'cha love it?

I mentioned in passing earlier that I was listening to " very weird symbion project stuff". One of the tracks is called 2 Hour Tekno because kasson wrote it in 2 hours. "i was bored one night and decided to see what i could write and program, mix and master, in just 2 hours. it's not that ( Read more... )

freezepop, music, introspection

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quiet000001 December 1 2005, 07:00:26 UTC

I don't know, but I'm the same way in that I just don't UNDERSTAND HOW THEY DO THAT.

Writing? Fine. Art? Yeah, okay. I lack skills, not talent. Music? I'm mystified how people start from nothing and form a song. One of my fascinations with the guys in MCR is that I want to sit them down and demand HOW DO YOU DO THAT?!?? :)

I'm hoping if I take some music theory in college it'll make more sense. (I studied piano for three years in a really good program, but we hit music theory right about the time I got fed up of having to practice an hour a night when no one was telling me if I was any good, so I never learned much.)

baratron December 1 2005, 20:31:25 UTC

Assuming we use the Western scale, there are 12 notes in each octave on a piano keyboard. Let's say that in a typical song you have a range of 3 octaves. That's 36 notes. HOW THE FLYING FUCK do you put together a mere 36 notes and yet make something entirely new?!

Writing is comparatively easy - there are n thousand words in the English language. (I don't actually know how many, but I believe a vocabulary of 8000 words is considered the basic necessity for life). If I find myself struggling, I just pick up a thesaurus and find some synonyms.

You could sit the guys from MCR down and ask them how they do it, but I don't think you'd get an answer. Because people who can do it just can. It would be like saying "How do you see different colours?" or "How do you manage to move your body to be in the right position to intercept the ball?". That's why it's so damn frustrating.

tropism December 1 2005, 11:43:39 UTC

Honestly, I think that it's just because people are wired slightly differently in the pattern-matching areas of their brain. I'd like to be able to do some things, like write computer software, but the kind of intuitive leaps which come naturally to a good programmer just usually aren't there for me. I don't see the shortcut; I don't see the logical progression; I've never written a truly righteous hack. I also sucked at calculus because I didn't see through the equations to know when to apply certain recutive formulae ( ... )

baratron December 1 2005, 20:40:58 UTC

My intuitive leaps are in chemistry and cooking. It's funny, because I was always told that "Good chemists make good cooks" - but I SUCKED at lab chemistry at college, and could barely cook anything more complicated than bung ingredients in the oven. Over the past couple of years, as I developed more and more food intolerances, I had to learn to cook for myself because it was that or starve, and now it's intuitive. I find myself with an ingredient in my hand and no idea why, except that I suspect adding a smidgeon of it will change the flavour and... it just happens ( ... )