What changed the way you look at music?

I just noticed my explanatory post was thumbs downed.. Lol!
I'm a pianist too, I just take my passion to an electronic extreme, no need for bad blood.

 

I know what you mean. Synthy pop music.

In the future people will be able to listen to all that stuff - but it won't be the same as actually being there when that music - jazz, rock n roll or whatever was happening.
I don't think classical music is dead, and I can see more classically trained people going into electronica in the future.

I think we are very fortunate. These days with things like spotify you can get to hear a vast range of stuff anytime.

Yet Bach himself was a renowned organist, and I assume his playing must have been very expressive.

Anyway, I'm not saying we should just reject any kind of music. The thread asked 'what changed the way you look at music?' I was just saying that the biggest revolution in my musical appreciation came with the advent of electronic stuff. The first time I went to a rave was like a massive hit of energy. I liked the fact that this was about the participants, not some figure up on a stage.
I still occasionally go to concerts of non electronic music, it's not that I'm into just one narrow thing.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM

 

I'll add Baroque to that list.

It's unfortunante most classic rock stations only focus on the hits. So much great b-side classic rock.

It is pretty fantastic... definitely one of the greatest things about the interwebs. I can listen to Indonesian Gamelan or latin jazz or Iranian folk music all with a simple click of a mouse! :2thumbsup:

I think Bach would have really dug the synclavier, or modern compositional software.

I wouldn't think of it....:beatdeadhorse5:
Look what it's done to my horsey!

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Jan Hammer comes to mind as an influential pitch bending keyboardist. The theme from 'Miami Vice' not withstanding, Jan's always been pretty much a jazz/ rock fusion guy, hardly mainstream.

 

Drugs. Actually not drugs, just weed. I think I was a late bloomer when it came to really appreciating music. I see my daughter and she has the greatest ear for it, hears something once and can sing the tune, she can recognize a lot of classical/electronic music after just a few seconds platings. I don't think I was ever like that. I remember listening to music as a kid, but I liked just about everything I was exposed to. I still have a weird relationship with music. I mostly can only listen to it by myself with headphones, but I'm rarely in the mood. I used to listen to music a lot more frequently as a teenager, but I also had less of an appreciation for it.

I think The Beatles were the first band I ever really liked. I think it was one of the first CDs I ever bought for myself.

 

Local college FM stations still play Bach and Telemann every morning. Local wineries seem to have Vivaldi playing in their tasting rooms on endless repeat, and Handel compositions with religious lyrics are still very popular with local churches. I think all this is here to stay.

...which is why, if my house catches fire, I'm grabbing the CD racks first. So many of those original albums can no longer be replaced.

My personal pics are on CD too. Everything else I own can be replaced with insurance money.

You know it! That's the way his brain worked.

 

That said,I buy a UK publication called "Uncut" every month,which includes a free CD of the supposedly best new music,so I do hear new stuff produced by those less jaded than me.It's just that I am often underwhelmed,dependent of course on what drugs I'm on or how much I've had to drink.

 

It does not depend on the actual content of that free cd? 'supposedly the best music': I don't really believe you buy into that crap Promotion is just a form of advertising naturally.

 

Anyone ever tell you you bare a passing resemblance to Rafael Nadal the tennis player?

 

Never. Physically? Verbally? Musically?

 

Physically.I'd I just peeked your profile and Nadal popped into my head.Maybe you both got that same polite killer instinct...

 

I don't usually look at music, I often to it.

But seriously, the rave scene. Also, drugs dramatically changed the way I interpret music.

 

I had a fascination for psychedelic drugs that was (as usually) easily combined with my love for music. But I can't say it really changed the way I look at or experience music. Sure, music is still intensified when stoned but that's not really another way of listening to/looking at, it just that: intensified.

I can see the resemblance but I don't recall someone else noticing it before you! Yes, the killer instinct might be more obvious

 

We had these things called Records. sometimes called LP's, Vinyl. They would make backwards tracks so you would play them backwards, and it would ruin your records.. And ya'd need to buy them again.. Here is one my favorite backwards tracks. And the album it come from.. Surprised the album survived all these years. Its funny that Ive had other thing completely destroyed..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfktg03AnNM"]Empty Spaces: The Backwards Secret Message - YouTube

 

I've never had a chance to check it out.

 

It's never too late. I'm mostly a retired raver, buy the select few year I go to are far from the kiddie scene people associate with raves.

 

Love the psychedelic communal vibe, used to get that at outdoor rock shows, but
I'm afraid the repetitive drone of electronic rave music would drive me away very quickly.

 

It's definitely not for everyone. For some, is an acquired taste. You learn to hear and fall in love with the subtle transitions and tempo changes, the build ups and the drops. It's beautiful.

 

Thats cool, I can see what people get out of it... but there's really not enough rhythmic variation for me, just that constant thump thump thump...

Also, real live musicians sometimes feed off and feed back the crowd vibe, canned electronic music never will.

 

Whoa whoa whoa!! Lol. Canned? There are plenty of artists that produce live.