>
>
> Yes difficult and also expensive - you need a lot of heavy speakers,
> equipment with walnut panelling, and software license dongles.
>
> And tube-lights in the same room as monitors. You absolutely need
tube-lights, then a second group of outlets to get rid of the interference.
Whatever you do; don't use regular bulbs.
I strongly recommend that people forced to work in such rooms secretly bring
mood lighting. I also recommend that people check their mix on laptop
speakers as that's quite likely what people will initially audition your
portfolio on.
> I think
> electronic dance music is so popular because it hits the brain with
> discrete patterns which are then understood through movements of the
> body by dancing, making it a total experience.
>
> Indeed... yet denying this link seems oddly popular in that scene. I think
I commented on it before, but I also see strong similarities between the
Baroque concept of using the human voice as a ideal for the sound of
instruments and the sounds popular in dance music. The baroque period saw
more phenomena that I believe are closely linked to our own practice.
Of course this trend is slowly reversing and currently there are senior
students and young educators who grew up in a era where electronic sounds
are the default which makes it all the more understandable that we are
seeing these "knee jerks". I predict that in a few years well laugh about
the days when coding music slowly in a overly bright room was seen as
fundamentally different from coding quickly in a dark one.
> Stockhausen totally agrees with Kassen:
>
> "I would recommend that every student of music go dancing at least
> once a week. And dance. Please, really dance: three of four hours a
> week."
> Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1989
>
>
I try to do it *during* my musical studies. It helps that I'm not especially
good at either dancing or typing so performance isn't harmed much. Still
didn't get round to the very serious joke of putting guitar-strap-pegs on a
keyboard.
Personally I see little harm in being a "joke category". A humorous approach
has served other artistic and political movements very well.
Yours,
Kas.
Received on Thu Feb 17 2011 - 13:02:48 GMT