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Re: Death to homophonic harmonies!
I listen to Imogen Heap for inspiration.
Tyler Z
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:48:44 -0700, Rob Jellinghaus wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill
><moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote:
>Is there a single beatboxer who when doing a demo video does NOT start to
>do
>homophonic harmonies?
>Yes. A friend of mine played with my looper and did all this awesome
>ambient
>stuff that would never have occurred to me. I know I have a lot of Bobby
>McFerrin in my skull and it keeps wanting to get out.
>But this is actually a very interesting question. How do you get out of a
>musical "rut"? I keep finding myself making relatively similar
>improvisations.
>On the one hand, I feel I should just do what comes naturally, since it's
>an
>expression of my musical instinct -- and I need practice at everything I
>do
>with looping-wise. But on the other hand, harmonies are very easily
>overdone
>and there is an infinity of other possibilities.
>What do you all do to crack yourselves out of making your old familiar
>type of
>music?
>Cheers,
>Rob
>(p.s. I don't really mean the subject line -- I will always love
>homophonic
>harmony madly --but it should add some energy to the thread ;-)
>--
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