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I love circuits (I'm poring over the circuit diagrams for a Rodgers 32c/d organ from the 60's in my spare time). I'm a musician (degree in piano performance...

I love circuits (I'm poring over the circuit diagrams for a Rodgers 32c/d organ from the 60's in my spare time). I'm a musician (degree in piano performance... currently trying to fix an organ so I can start organ lessons). I am not a guitarist, but I can appreciate the utility and function of guitar pedals. I don't understand the use for this. I don't see how it is used for music, and the sounds do not seem pleasant to me. Can someone help me understand what I'm missing?

Minor49er 5y ago
Any sound can have musical use, and some music doesn't aim for pleasantness. I would make recordings of this, then chop out the most interesting bits, rearrange them into patterns, play them back at different speeds, time stretch them, put effects over them, etc. There is a lot here to work with.
rjh29 5y ago
Welcome to modular synthesis. It's more about experimental generation of new sounds and patterns than being traditionally 'musical'.
- orlp 5y ago
  Traditional music primarily uses pitch and rhythm to express itself. Synthesis is a musical expression primarily found in timbre.
anyfoo 5y ago
Dntel's "The Dream of Evan and Chan" uses what quite literally seems like recording noise artifacts and incorporates that as one of the defining components of a very beautiful piece of music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyispolH20Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyispolH20Q Like the sibling commenter Minor49er says: "Any sound can have musical use". Classical instruments including percussion are just the noises we are most used to.
lancesells 5y ago
A lot of the music I listen to is unpleasant. I think it's just a matter of taste.
Cthulhu_ 5y ago
There's a few genres that incorporate these kinds of instruments; shoegaze / pop, synthpop / synthwave and noise come to mind. Whether that's your thing is of course personal preference (for me it's not really but on occasion)

Minor49er 5y ago

Any sound can have musical use, and some music doesn't aim for pleasantness. I would make recordings of this, then chop out the most interesting bits, rearrange them into patterns, play them back at different speeds, time stretch them, put effects over them, etc. There is a lot here to work with.

rjh29 5y ago

Welcome to modular synthesis. It's more about experimental generation of new sounds and patterns than being traditionally 'musical'.

orlp 5y ago
Traditional music primarily uses pitch and rhythm to express itself. Synthesis is a musical expression primarily found in timbre.

anyfoo 5y ago

Dntel's "The Dream of Evan and Chan" uses what quite literally seems like recording noise artifacts and incorporates that as one of the defining components of a very beautiful piece of music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyispolH20Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyispolH20Q Like the sibling commenter Minor49er says: "Any sound can have musical use". Classical instruments including percussion are just the noises we are most used to.

lancesells 5y ago

A lot of the music I listen to is unpleasant. I think it's just a matter of taste.

Cthulhu_ 5y ago

There's a few genres that incorporate these kinds of instruments; shoegaze / pop, synthpop / synthwave and noise come to mind. Whether that's your thing is of course personal preference (for me it's not really but on occasion)