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> and when I see a clean instruction led process that has no room for human touch, may it be mistake that blends it naturally or unpredictibility it somehow app
by squeaky-clean 4y ago
> and when I see a clean instruction led process that has no room for human touch, may it be mistake that blends it naturally or unpredictibility it somehow appears dull.
I'll be honest I'm not 100% sure what you're criticizing here, do you mean the article giving a step-by-step guide on how to replicate the soundtrack? Or is something about the soundtrack itself a clean instruction led process with no room for human touch?
If you mean the steps of how to recreate the original songs, I half agree. Replication doesn't make for a super interesting piece to share. But it is a great way to learn how to make electronic music. A guitarist or pianist practices by learning existing music right? Much of electronic music is in the sound production and "covering" an existing track is just as good a practice as learning your favorite guitar solo.
If you mean the music itself is dull because it's software and sequencer driven well I'd say there's still plenty of human elements in the composition and I'd bet plenty of human knob-twiddling. But also consider it's a movie soundtrack so it's not really supposed to steal the foreground, and it's a movie that centers around programming and a main character with terrible social skills, so the robotic sequencing is probably very intentional. Check out the album "Ghosts I-IV" which includes these same 2 dudes and the rest of the NiN bandmates and was used as a placeholder score for the movie if you want to hear something with a similar vibe but far more "organic" sounding.