Music poll No. 1

[Guest boo]

I was gonna make a huge poll with sections for every single thing related to music, but there's a lot of stuff, so i'm doing it in installments. then the winner from each poll will compete in a final poll.

 

Not much point to it, just curious.

[Guest IRARI]

i voted for all of them

[Npoess]

definitely Rhythm

[Guest tv_party]

I think a better poll would be where they could all be ordered according to each individuals preference if that's possible.

[Guest Gary C]

OMG.

[Guest abusivegeorge]

^^

[Zephyr_Nova]

Those are all things that are very important to me, so yeah I checked everything. For instance some music I like purely for the textures and tones/timbres, then there's other music that's just really well composed music that has little to do with either of those things. I'm a bit surprised that texture and rhythm are the MOST important qualities of music to most people so far... though I guess that makes a lot of sense on a forum dedicated to experimental electronic music. I mean, I do love Autechre, but applied to music as a whole I don't tend to find those elements all that vital to good music/good listening experience.

[Guest Adjective]

texture / rhythm / melody

in order of what i notice in the first few seconds

i guess that's the face of a song for me and everything else is what's beneath the eyes that hurts and moves you

[Guest melotronic]

nice idea

 

voted all except harmony, simply cos i didnt want to vote for them all

[Deepex]

i voted for all of them

 

[chim]

i judge all music by its idm-ness

[Guest chax]

there is so much to get into discussion here..i am sure i will have a thoughtful response in like 2-3 hours if i don't forget, i should write this down somewhere i can see it

[SCONES TO DIE FOR]

I was going to check everything, but I just checked melody. That's my #1.

[Bob Dylan]

Emotion.

[Guest boo]

Emotion.

Aesthetics/Mood

 

but a poll later in the series will have more emotion-related options

[Guest nene multiple assgasms]

what the fuck is texture?

[Deepex]

what the fuck is texture?

This is how I know you're not IDM.

[Guest A/D]

i inhale the music deeply into the back of my throat and then blow little hearts up to the ceiling

[Guest mrx]

what the fuck is texture?

lush pads

[Guest boo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_(music)

[OneToThirtySix]

First three and last three.

[Zephyr_Nova]

I was going to check everything, but I just checked melody. That's my #1.

 

This would be true of me too. But at the same time there's a lot of music I love that is not melodically driven. And there are artists I really admire who don't necessarily have the greatest melodies, but everything else about them is great. A top notch melody is still like the holy grail that I'd most want to attain when writing music, though when I approach electronic music it becomes a less important element to me... I'm on the fence on this one.

[acid1]

Least we know most people hear must be autechre fans

[Squee]

Everything except from rhythm. As long as it sounds great I don't care.