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Vita wrote: ↑May 14th, 2022, 1:28 am
What would it feel like to hear something beyond what we could imagine?
The first time a person hears a certain kind of music it may involve hearing what could not have been imagined previously. Sometimes when I hear certain new bands or songs which stand out it feels like they are so astonishing as if I could never have imagined them. Certain music artists may have experimented in chord combinations creating new possibilities in sound. I am not sure that you are speaking with reference to music, but it does seem important in connection to the 'unimaginable' in sound.
Vita wrote: ↑May 14th, 2022, 1:28 am
What would it feel like to hear something beyond what we could imagine?
The first time a person hears a certain kind of music it may involve hearing what could not have been imagined previously. Sometimes when I hear certain new bands or songs which stand out it feels like they are so astonishing as if I could never have imagined them. Certain music artists may have experimented in chord combinations creating new possibilities in sound. I am not sure that you are speaking with reference to music, but it does seem important in connection to the 'unimaginable' in sound.
Not talking about chords or songs here, I mean new instruments with unique sounds (ie. what did people think of the first trumpet? What would we think of a new instrument?) Chords may sound new, but they are played on an old instrument.
Vita wrote: ↑May 14th, 2022, 1:28 am
What would it feel like to hear something beyond what we could imagine?
The first time a person hears a certain kind of music it may involve hearing what could not have been imagined previously. Sometimes when I hear certain new bands or songs which stand out it feels like they are so astonishing as if I could never have imagined them. Certain music artists may have experimented in chord combinations creating new possibilities in sound. I am not sure that you are speaking with reference to music, but it does seem important in connection to the 'unimaginable' in sound.
Not talking about chords or songs here, I mean new instruments with unique sounds (ie. what did people think of the first trumpet? What would we think of a new instrument?) Chords may sound new, but they are played on an old instrument.
The creation of new instruments is interesting and, perhaps, not enough inventions are occurring here. The closet to this was probably the electric guitar and synthesizer in the twentieth century which played so much of a role in the rock and electronic music. I grew up listening to these, but people from several centuries ago would probably not have imagined such sounds at all. I wonder if it the fullest possibilities of sound have been reached. I know a couple of alternative scene musicians who think that since the year 2000 most music has been repetitions of the past. I wonder whether there are dramatic innovations which can be made if humanity continues for a severe future centuries.
Vita wrote: ↑May 14th, 2022, 8:37 pm
Not talking about chords or songs here, I mean new instruments with unique sounds (ie. what did people think of the first trumpet? What would we think of a new instrument?) Chords may sound new, but they are played on an old instrument.
Vita wrote: ↑May 14th, 2022, 8:37 pm
Not talking about chords or songs here, I mean new instruments with unique sounds (ie. what did people think of the first trumpet? What would we think of a new instrument?) Chords may sound new, but they are played on an old instrument.
Vita wrote: ↑May 14th, 2022, 8:37 pm
Not talking about chords or songs here, I mean new instruments with unique sounds (ie. what did people think of the first trumpet? What would we think of a new instrument?) Chords may sound new, but they are played on an old instrument.
Well, synthesisers can produce almost any sound?
Analog couldn't, digital can.
I see people are still getting a lot of mileage and novelty out of the Waldorf Microwave XT. Wave table synthesis is a pretty simple idea and it's fascinating to see what kinds of novelty can still shake out.
Vita wrote: ↑May 14th, 2022, 8:37 pm
Not talking about chords or songs here, I mean new instruments with unique sounds (ie. what did people think of the first trumpet? What would we think of a new instrument?) Chords may sound new, but they are played on an old instrument.
What did people think of the "first" trumpet? There had never been a "new" sound to be in awe with. In physics, sounds are waves, which constantly surround us and had conditioned us to search for it constantly -- underwater, hollow objects, empty cavities where echoes abound, caves, tunnels, mountains, pipes, etc. Dinosaurs were loud apparently. Birds could be deafening. No instruments could catapult us to another dimension. We enjoy the "new" sound as it is played by a skilled artist.