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Angus Kerr wrote:
On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 7:11:36 PM UTC+2, Peter Larsen wrote:
On 18-10-2015 09:45, Angus Kerr wrote:

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Afraid I find the content so fatiguing, I can't concentrate the
effects of the multiband compressor. Although I can perceive a
reduction in dynamic range that is quite subtle and smooth.

I had not expected to use earplugs when recording a chamber
quartet, but did.

Lol. I often wonder what is the point of this dissonance-on-purpose
type of music. It seems almost set up to create maximum offense. I
mean, surely we should be now post-modern where a clever melody of
some sort can exist with dissonance and shocking backing or whatever.

"Rite of Spring" was first performed in 1913.

But having some across some composition professors they are about as
whacko as you can get. I suppose you have to push the boundaries. I
remember doing theory exams where you are given a melody to do 4 part
harmonies to or whatever, and thinking to myself, "god this melody
sucks, why bother to do harmonies to it?"

Also makes me laugh, because in the late seventies and early eighties
when John Williams was talking about his Star Wars soundtrack, he
said there was a lot of resistance and rebellion in the LSO regarding
his 'dissonant and unmusical' soundtrack. They should get a load of
your group's recording!


MOAR FRENCH HORNS! MOAR! MOAR! It's like Bill Moffit "Soundpower"
arrangements.

Eaughhhh... give me Aaron Copeland or Elmer Bernstein any day.

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