"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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@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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I suppose I'm looking for anything that pushes my understanding of music in a way that fascinates my brain.
@ziphi yeah it's hard to put words to it for us too
we value familiarity, which is why most of what we listen to is video game music from games we enjoyed, but the stuff that makes us interested in the music in the first place is hard to pin down
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We can certainly list things that we *don't* like in music, though.
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Except for soulless Christian Contemporary Music, written to be as simple, easy to play, and generally inoffensive to people who might have accidentally wandered into the contemporary service at church instead of the traditional as possible.
And sidechain compression making the rest of the music quieter every time the bass drum is played.
@ziphi that sidechain compression thing is one of the things we dislike because it's just viscerally uncomfortable for us to listen to
the other thing is music with singing
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@ziphi certainly something that can be done very wrong! but also that can be done very right.
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