Composing with no ears

Has anyone ever fired up their DAW and attempted to make a beat/tune that is dependant on the sounds they imagine in their head as a means to interpret what it actually sounds like?

i don't undenstand

I knew i explained it bad.

Say you have no speakers, or no ears. Either is a cunt.

Now imagine you're the new beethoven and you want to compose still.

You can still imagine the music, so why not plonk the midi notes down and as you click play with the timer passing the notes - imagine the samples it plays - thus being able to make music for others, even when deaf.

i still don't get it but you may be onto something

a lot of composers occasionally wrote without using their ears, its a skill you gain with experience.

  On 4/15/2010 at 2:47 AM, Rabid said:

a lot of composers occasionally wrote without using their ears, its a skill you gain with experience.

Yeah, a friend said about a popular musician who wrote a very big hit album on a plane using a pen and paper (msuic score).

This is why I think it would be so easy to write/compose a track by using a DAW (digital audio workstation) because you can see when the player hits the midi notes.

Stick a pencil in both of your ears and try it out

Also, I've tried this before and it was shit. But It is an interesting idea.

yeah i've tried it before too and it wasn't very good. though i do like the idea of composing drum patterns without hearing them. i also had an idea to create 'touch music' - music that you experience by placing your hand on a speaker. mostly very low frequencies, i guess. but that's a tangent.

i don't see much of a point in writing music if you'll never be able to hear it. though i wonder to what degree your senses become synesthetic when your hearing is lost.

it's a good thing you weren't beethoven.

  On 4/15/2010 at 7:56 AM, sisforawesome said:

it's a good thing you weren't beethoven.

true.

I've always been entertained by the results of writing with the speakers off! I think it kinda shows you aspects of your writing from a new angle. I actually just last night wrote a short melody on the staff. Just pen and paper. No instrument. So not quite the same as writing on Ableton or something, but similar results. I also tried to write in a scale and time sig. I had never written in before. The result was absolute crap but entertaining non the less.

there was a WATMM deaf compilation about 5 years ago

people made tracks without any speakers

this was one of mine

  On 4/15/2010 at 4:12 PM, LUDD said:

there was a WATMM deaf compilation about 5 years ago

 

people made tracks without any speakers

 

this was one of mine

 

 

wow this sounds very much like midievil rave

awesome

I have to try this

yeah i tried this for the comp, didn't submit my track cos it was appalling. i mean, really bad. i might still have it somewhere...

fuck it.

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by a long way the worst thing i've ever done. boring and the volumes are a long way out, i mixed it on the fly with the speakers off to. no idea why i'm posting this horseshit.

  On 4/15/2010 at 4:12 PM, LUDD said:

there was a WATMM deaf compilation about 5 years ago

 

people made tracks without any speakers

 

this was one of mine

 

 

yeah i made one too but it didn't make the cut, and i never got to hear it myself

Beethoven devised a method using a wooden pole connected to the piano soundboard that he would clench his teeth onto. In that manner, he could hear the notes vibrate in his head.

  On 4/15/2010 at 4:12 PM, LUDD said:

there was a WATMM deaf compilation about 5 years agopeople made tracks without any speakers this was one of mine

there still a thread for it somewhere?