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  1. ArtificialDisco
    I'm gonna call the whole thing in F# minor actually. icct.wav
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    Great video. "Notes that share a large number of overtones sound consonant..." I think that was kind of the missing link for me personally. I was trying to figure out why a minor ninth sounds dissonant even if using sine waves, which have no overtones. Those sine waves might "fall into" each others overtones series, and be consonant, or they might not, and be dissonant. Actually this might also explain something that's been a mystery to me for years: Why does the augmented chord sound dissonant, while not having any dissonant intervals in it? It only has major third intervals (or inversions). I guess there just aren't enough overtones that all three notes have in common.
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    You mean the AFX tune right? ? I haven't worked it through myself, to be honest. I might take a serious look tomorrow. I just noticed the familiar themes and feelings of the octatonic scale. There are sections that sound completely within the scale, like the one that starts at 3:14, but most of them only borrow from it. I think there is a score floating around, because I know Philip Glass did an orchestration of this. You could compare that if you don't want to wait for me to sober up.
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    Maybe you guys will enjoy a few examples of my favourite scale, the diminished scale (also called the octatonic). I love the sinister, otherwordly sound it has and I have used it extensively - obsessively even - in the past. Three examples of Orbital using it brilliantly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoI5614r2ps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEkrQPrE3Qo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bioFSUjkS5U One by Aphex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgJq7RI-kWA And one by Olivier Messiaen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNR-zDwuABg And I don't whether I should be tooting my own horn here, but whatever: https://soundcloud.com/artificial-disco/our-robot-think-youre-a-robot
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    Haha, ok, maybe I was playing it up for the point I was making. But I mostly meant that the song basically is the bassline and guitar riff - which are a masterpiece of course. I never thought the vocals added much, personally and when the Sugarhill Gang did it, it added a whole new dimension to it.
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    I kind of think that if there is creativity in it it's ok. Or at least then I respect it. Breakbeat chopping is an artform in and of itself because you can come up with beats no one would ever have dreamt up otherwise. I've been on an Amen Break bender myself for the last few months and I'm trying to ween myself off it, but the method of chopping is still something I'll keep doing. Sampling whole songs and just throwing your shit on top is a little... eh. Although there have been curious cases in the past. Like for example, the Sugarhill Gang sampling Good Times by Chic, which almost felt like a collaboration through the ages. Good Times is a mediocre song with a great bassline and groove and having the Sugarhill Gang rap over it was just what it needed. (Also, technically wasn't sampling but a recreation, but you know what I mean.)
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    Haha, holy shit did that come out of nowhere! Good lord!
  8. ArtificialDisco
    Do you sometimes have dreams where it resolves to the major chord?
  9. ArtificialDisco
    I would just be better. Like if something is poorly mixed. We might overlook it because the music is really good, but it's still poorly mixed and every once in a while you'll go "shit, this is hurting my ears, I wish someone would have fixed this."
  10. ArtificialDisco
    Nice!
  11. ArtificialDisco
    Funnily enough I've seen it used in flippant way, similar to "who'd a thunk it". That'll learn ya! It does add that little bit of extra disdain I thought you were going for...
  12. ArtificialDisco
    Yes, sounds about right. And the tonic chord is the chord whose root is the tonic.
  13. ArtificialDisco
    Yeah, man, it's all good. You can use it for all those things. It's pretty dissonant in general, but I'd say that's a feature, not a bug. Sometimes you want that.
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    It's a perfectly good beginning of a scale. If you add the fifth and the dominant 7 you have a pretty cool sounding symmetric subset of the diminished scale. In fact I discovered that four-note chord myself though my obsession with the diminished scale. I always thought of it as a 7 sus b5 chord. Like, when you're in regular major you can have a suspended fourth and move it down to the third, but if you're in the dim scale you have a augmented fourth instead. The move F7susb5 -> F7 was to me a very compelling sound and a sort of parallel reality version of the regular suspended movement.
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    If you've ever gotten a song stuck in your head I'm pretty sure you can do it.
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    No I haven't, but I'm definitely going to check it out now.
  17. ArtificialDisco
    Reminds me that I still haven't finished Tales From the Tour Bus.
  18. ArtificialDisco
    Another breakbeat-heavy track:
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    I like it. Melodic, breezy, all in a all a pretty good listen. The oversaturated drums worked out as well. I associate cheesiness with overwrought emotionality and bad harmonies, but your melodies don't suffer from that at all. They do have a breeziness to them that make those retro sounding synths fit.
  20. ArtificialDisco
    Does anyone else think that Blue Alien Jake from Adventure Time looks like a midi input?
  21. ArtificialDisco
    Ok, fair points. I thought the helicopter bit was indeed a little contrived... But I also had the feeling that it was actually a bit of string-pulling by Logan. The car accident was actually Kendall being a reckless drug addict - something like this was bound to happen eventually. You're talking about the one where the waiter dies, right (ooops, huge spoiler... obviously)? The legal threat - was that cruises? It's been haunting the family for all three seasons now.
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    I have a slightly dimmer view of Stranger Things. In my mind, S1 was a masterpiece: On one hand it was a 80's throwback banking on nostalgia but on the other it was something completely new. Like someone just decided to completely reinvent the genre and absolutely master it at the same time. I was mesmerized the whole time watching. It was brilliant. Seasons 2 was decent, but you could tell they were kind of running out of steam. Season 3 was just dumb. And insultingly so. I hate it *so* *much*. I'm watching Locke and Key now, and kind of feel like that's what later seasons of Stranger Things should have been. Like, someone told me the original idea for Stranger Things was to have a new mystery every season, completely unrelated to the last one, and a completely new cast. I'd say that they should have gone with that.
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    Are you kidding me? How?
  24. ArtificialDisco
    I've been making a few of these videos as a bit of entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-HPOiAToyA Usually they're sort of loosely structured jam sessions of works in progress which will eventually be edited into finished compositions.
  25. ArtificialDisco
    Groovy as hell! I think acoustic elements make for a nice contrast to the rigidity of the electronic background. Maybe it could be a fun experiment to run the drums through a lofi filter or tape emulation or something if you want it to sit more in line with the electronics - just an idea, although it sounds pretty good to me already.
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