This is the coolest music contest I've ever seen: Stockhausen on Acid!

[Valkyrie Sound]

I really wish I was more into writing my own stuff... This is SO cool: http://www.acidplanet.com/contests/stockhausen/ Stockhausen is even going to be judging the contest! How cool! :thu: If you enter... post an mp3 for the rest of us! Valky

[Jotown]

That looks very cool.

[Oiled]

Thanks for the link! This is primo.

[Franknputer]

Awesome - thanks Valky! :thu:

[joegerardi]

Um... [quote]Professor Stockhausen has developed an approach called "formula composition" in which a single musical idea is used to develop a larger composition.[/quote]Wow! That's probably a shock to all the composers of "Themes and Variations" and all the classical music composed by one composer based on the theme of another composer.

[surfmonkey]

Hey thanks for the link!! That's does look pretty cool, I think I'll enter. :idea:

[Valkyrie Sound]

[quote]Originally posted by joegerardi: [b]Um... [quote]Professor Stockhausen has developed an approach called "formula composition" in which a single musical idea is used to develop a larger composition.[/quote]Wow! That's probably a shock to all the composers of "Themes and Variations" and all the classical music composed by one composer based on the theme of another composer.[/b][/quote]Yeah... There's a perfect example of someone from SF marketing department trying to decribe the importance of Stockhausen... and not quite being able to do it very well in a press release format. Oh well..... Stockhausen is still huge in the music world. Valky

[Dan South]

Wait a minute! A "composition contest" using Acid? That's like an architecture contest using pieces of other buildings. Maybe instead of building a new World Trade Center, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey should just grab a few floors from each of several famous skyscrapers and landmark buildings and slap them together into a collage beside the Hudson River. Wouldn't THAT be cool? :rolleyes: Personally, I'd rather hear solo trombone music. ;)

[Oiled]

[quote]Originally posted by Dan South: [b]Wait a minute! A "composition contest" using Acid? That's like an architecture contest using pieces of other buildings. Maybe instead of building a new World Trade Center, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey should just grab a few floors from each of several famous skyscrapers and landmark buildings and slap them together into a collage beside the Hudson River. Wouldn't THAT be cool? :rolleyes: Personally, I'd rather hear solo trombone music. ;) [/b][/quote]Hey, remixing is still composing Dan. Have you heard any clever remixes lately? Are YOU a remixer? Have you ever attempted a remix? If so, were you happy with the end result? Apparently not. You clearly have no frame of reference, and therefore no right to even comment on the subject of remixing, let alone respond to a thread about a remixing contest. :wave:

[Dan South]

[quote]Originally posted by Bubby Chastard: [b]Hey, remixing is still composing Dan. [/b][/quote]With all due respect, I absolutely disagree. Remixing is arranging, not composing. That's not a disparaging remark. Arranging is just as important and difficult a task as composing, perhaps moreso, but it's important not to confuse the two.

[Oiled]

So if I take all the tracks of a given song, and chop them up, and rearrange them to form NEW melodies and progressions, am I not composing? Case closed.

[Dan South]

[quote]Originally posted by Bubby Chastard: [b]So if I take all the tracks of a given song, and chop them up, and rearrange them to form NEW melodies and progressions, am I not composing? Case closed.[/b][/quote]If you re-edit Gone With The Wind into a different story line, it's not the same thing as shooting your own film from your own screenplay written from your own experiences and the feelings in your own heart. Sorry.

[KHAN]

I'm making popcorn. This is gonna get good. :eek: . . . . . . . . I vote for arranging. :freak:

[Oiled]

com·pose ( P ) Pronunciation Key (km-pz) v. com·posed, com·pos·ing, com·pos·es v. tr. To make up the constituent parts of; constitute or form: an exhibit composed of French paintings; the many ethnic groups that compose our nation. See Usage Note at comprise. [b]To make or create by putting together parts or elements. To create or produce (a literary or musical piece). [/b] To make (oneself) calm or tranquil: Compose yourself and deal with the problems logically. To settle or adjust; reconcile: They managed to compose their differences. [b]To arrange aesthetically or artistically. [/b] Printing. To arrange or set (type or matter to be printed).

[Jeff Klopmeyer]

Whooo, I'm getting a snack and sitting to watch this one too. My vote: arranging. Heh-heh-heh. And I LOVE great remixes. This is not an insult. And I laughed like hell at Dan South's architecture analogy. - Jeff

[D_dup3]

Here's one way that remixing might be considered composing, even by Dan S.: You record multiple tracks all relating to a main theme (or themes); then, in the mixing process, you select those sections that you wish to include. This technique can be simple (rock guitarist building solo from improvisations) or more complex (entirely different sections brought in or bypassed). I've done it both ways. This can even be used to produce several very different outcomes. Is that merely rearranging? What I really want to say, however, is that history of Stockhausen's career is tiny bit inaccurate. The only people from those San Francisco rock bands who ever studied at a music school in the mid-60s, for instance, were Phil Lesh & Tom Constanten (although Mickey Hart did later study with some mid-Eastern percussion cats). And John Lennon's outre tendencies aside, it's well known that McCartney was the influence that brought Stockhausen's influence to the Beatles. No wonder Macca's gettin' paranoid about his "place in history"!

[Dan South]

Nothing to see here. Please disburse. I've got to go compose myself. :D

[Oiled]

[quote]Originally posted by d: [b]Here's one way that remixing might be considered composing, even by Dan S.: You record multiple tracks all relating to a main theme (or themes); then, in the mixing process, you select those sections that you wish to include. This technique can be simple (rock guitarist building solo from improvisations) or more complex (entirely different sections brought in or bypassed).[/b][/quote]Good example.

[Dan South]

When you compose something, you write an arrangement of it, its primary arrangement. You can't compose without creating an arrangement in the process. If you (or anyone else) rearrange(s) the piece, you(they) are arranging, not composing. If you sit down at a piano (or other instrument) and improvise a song, your composing. If you play an improvised arrangement of an existing song, you're arranging. If you improvise a solo over an existing piece of music, you are composing a new melody for it. I would not consider that arranging, because you're not affecting the entire arrangement, just one part.

[Jeff Klopmeyer]

[quote]Originally posted by Dan South: [b]Nothing to see here. Please disburse.[/b][/quote]Is it "disburse" or "disperse"? Doesn't "disburse" mean to "pay out", while "disperse" means to "scatter in all directions"? Please arrange your response carefully. :D - Jeff

[Oiled]

[quote]Originally posted by Jeff, TASCAM Guy: [b] Please arrange your response carefully.[/b][/quote]You mean compose.

[KHAN]

[quote]Originally posted by d: [b]Here's one way that remixing might be considered composing, even by Dan S.: You record multiple tracks all relating to a main theme (or themes); [/b][/quote]If you wrote and recorded the themes, then you have composed. If you taken tracks written by someone else, then you have arranged. :wave:

[The T Dot]

[quote]Originally posted by KHAN: [b] [quote]Originally posted by d: [b]Here's one way that remixing might be considered composing, even by Dan S.: You record multiple tracks all relating to a main theme (or themes); [/b][/quote]If you wrote and recorded the themes, then you have composed. If you taken tracks written by someone else, then you have arranged. :wave: [/b][/quote]What about taking tracks written by someone else, and creating a NEW theme out of them? That would be composing, sir.

[Dan South]

[quote]Originally posted by Jeff, TASCAM Guy: [b] [quote]Originally posted by Dan South: [b]Nothing to see here. Please disburse.[/b][/quote]Is it "disburse" or "disperse"? Doesn't "disburse" mean to "pay out", while "disperse" means to "scatter in all directions"? Please arrange your response carefully. :D - Jeff[/b][/quote]I subconsciously want people to pay me. :D

[Dan South]

If I do a remix of a famous song - Hey Jude, Stairway to Heaven, Freebird, etc. - and I release it and sell a million copies, does the original composer get the songwriting royalty or do I?

[KHAN]

[quote]Originally posted by Jeff, TASCAM Guy: [b] [quote]Originally posted by Dan South: [b]Nothing to see here. Please disburse.[/b][/quote]Is it "disburse" or "disperse"? Doesn't "disburse" mean to "pay out", while "disperse" means to "scatter in all directions"? Please arrange your response carefully. :D - Jeff[/b][/quote]Please tell me Dan misused a word. OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE !!!!! He has corrected me on sooooooooo many occasions. Please god. Just give me this one thing. ;)

[Dan South]

Yes, I did...Kahn. ;)

[KHAN]

[quote]Originally posted by Chris Himself: [b]IWhat about taking tracks written by someone else, and creating a NEW theme out of them? That would be composing, sir.[/b][/quote]Not in my book. At best it's a pretty big sssstttttrrrreeeeeettttttccccccchhhhh . :)

[ljp]

ummm, has anyone actually _listened_ to the samples they provide? :freak:

[KHAN]

[quote]Originally posted by Dan South: [b]Yes, I did...Kahn. ;) [/b][/quote]That's two. :p [img]http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/otn/funny/fruit.gif[/img] [img]http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/otn/funny/fruit.gif[/img] [img]http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/otn/funny/fruit.gif[/img] [img]http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/otn/funny/fruit.gif[/img] [img]http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/otn/funny/fruit.gif[/img] [img]http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/otn/funny/fruit.gif[/img]