My mother, after picking up my car from where I left it at work, because I was injured and had to be taken home:
"I know why you write music the way you do. Because I drove your car last night, and that stuff is what you think is normal."
Talking about Bartok's string quartets.
"I know why you write music the way you do. Because I drove your car last night, and that stuff is what you think is normal."
Talking about Bartok's string quartets.
@ziphi Bartok is good listening though. haven't been in the mood for classical stuff in a while but definitely good choice
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@Felthry She's not the best with dissonance. Likes a lot of prog rock, but just doesn't get into any classical past the Romantic Period.
@ziphi I thought prog rock was one of those genres that used dissonance a lot? though I guess Bartok is probably about the most extreme you can get with dissonance before going into atonal stuff
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@Felthry It can be. Depends on what you listen to though. She's really into Rush and Yes, with Rush being pretty straight-forward with a rock sound, and Yes a bit more jazzy. As for newer stuff (relatively), she likes Porcupine Tree, which can get a little dissonant. It's just done in a way that sounds more familiar to her, so she doesn't recognize it as "wrong." But some of the stuff I write, as well as my more post modern tastes strike her as sounding like "the wrong notes being played," probably due to unfamiliarity.
@ziphi We just like weird (usually implying dissonant, but sometimes surprise octave jumps) note choices keeping us guessing, sometimes
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