Autechre Musical Theory

I think being able to write a proper string quartet or even a symphony has got more to do with knowing about the respective limitations/peculiarities of the instruments. For instance, you can't write unreal fast arpeggios or notes that last so long or have too high pitch that it's impossible for a player to play them. That's not important if you're letting a VST play the notes, though.

By the way, what books or courses are you taking to learn about this stuff?

Oh and one more thing I thought about.. (this is going to be a rant) my general impression of the classical music greats (Bach, Mozart, Haydn etc.) is that they were the mainstream pop-stars of their time (even though they probably mostly played for kings and aristocrats), and it's also my impression that most of what you probably consider music theory is borne from analysing their output. But it's not like that classical music is all there ever was - there's folk music tradition that goes back probably further than the point where the first monks wrote down their Gregorian chants, and now as I live in a way more democratized scene (i.e. a *huge* amount of people have access to instruments), I see that classical music has become a niche, but because it's Classical (read: rich people have historically liked and funded it). So in a very tortured analogy, I think I could say that looking to classical music theory as some "root" or powerful tool is kind of like looking to the chiptune scene and filling books with analysis based on only that, just because it so happened in history that some rich people liked chiptune turned it into some badge of class.

I think I've had too many close encounters with smug classical music enthusiasts..

I guess what I wanted to say with the above is that basically everything's fine in moderation, but reading too much into music theory is sort of like zooming in to classical music while disregarding all the other types of music out there.

*cuts off nose to spite face*

get this book, it will open your eyes

https://www.amazon.com/Chord-Wheel-Ultimate-Tool-Musicians/dp/0634021427

mainly the cover

  On 9/25/2017 at 10:37 PM, marf said:

get this book, it will open your eyes

https://www.amazon.com/Chord-Wheel-Ultimate-Tool-Musicians/dp/0634021427

 

mainly the cover

I've seen that mentioned before. Is it not just a deep delve into the circle of 5ths?

yeah, it makes the fifths very easy to understand and thus modes too. I find that a lot of theory books get very confusing. Mainly because of the delivery and also the authors start making up their own nomenclature.

i bought tessitura pro, but again it was confusing for no reason

aphex just uses his ears. he said it on soundcloud. he moves notes around until he likes how it sounds. Using your ears is probably most important. His best melodies are in standard tuning. He just uses the rhythm and how many times a note plays to really make it work. Very simple melodies. Im not sure about autechre, but i imagine its all ears

Ive always loved the melodies in peter and the wolf. I think he's my favorite classical composer.