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Since the professor is also a composer, are there any examples of his own music? I'm unable to find anything except his lectures on YouTube. I'd really like to
by korginator 3y ago
Since the professor is also a composer, are there any examples of his own music? I'm unable to find anything except his lectures on YouTube. I'd really like to hear his take on good sounding music. As a former musician myself, I find my own tastes changing every year, and it's very subjective.
Though he talks about the five properties, I tend to disagree with this generalisation - what I like at the moment really depends on my state of mind, mood, time of the day, and what I want to feel like after listening to a few songs. Sometimes I really get into songs with complex patterns and interesting time-signature changes, and at other times I simply settle with some Wes Montgomery. What sounded good to me this morning doesn't work for me now. What I disliked five years ago is something I keep coming back to today.
Age contributes as a very significant factor to what sounds good. Speed metal or power metal was "good" in my teens and twenties, but these days I need to be in a very specific mood with specific energy levels to even consider some Pantera or Megadeth. On the other hand, I can easily get into Sepultura ("Ratamahatta", "Roots bloody roots", etc.) even though they are often much heavier, because there's a kind of easy coexistence with their type of music that I find curious. There are other musicians I liked way back then, but you couldn't pay me money to listen to them today - even the same songs I had on repeat.
Perhaps the prof is on theoretically sound footing, I'm a layman in this field, but I can't experience what he describes.