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Main advantages of using tracks vs. KS in your template (Tested):
LEARNING: If you use an instrument with many articulations, like a violin, you will need to learn and remember many KS commands DISPONIBILITY: Using tracks you can go directly to the best articulation that each library has to offer. You will need VEP to combine articulations of different libraries on the same track. MIXING: You will…
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The Essence of Musical Form
The musical sounds needs to please our need for unity of perception according to the principium individuationis (the principle thanks to which something exists as an unity for our perception): this is why the simple vibrations are more pleasant than the complex ones when heard alone. The musical form is nothing more than the macro…
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“STUDY” ON PYTHAGORAS AND THE DISSONANCE
From my era as a student of philosophy I knew how much bs the modern scientific method has to offer when scientists disregard the logical foundations of what they are doing and use science exactly as the morbid doom scrolling person at the train. But I didn’t believe the situation was so bad, until i…
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“Active Ignorants” of Music Theory
Music theory is the necessary instrument you have in order to understand and explain the beauty of musical artworks in musical terms. People who do an apologetics against music theory are not humble enough to pay reverence to the great musical artworks trying to understand them. It is like believing that your ear hears better…
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Great Scherzos you need to know:
Bruckner, 8 Symphony Schumann, 4th Symphony Mendelssohn, Sommernachtsträume Dvorak, 9th Symphony Rachmaninoff, Scherzo 1888 Josef Suk, Scherzo Fantastique https://youtu.be/MiLH4MMm5J0?si=ix3ElzK1k55InQDg
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Fundamental Problems of Film Music
Composing for films brings music into a new category of aesthetic (kunsphilosophische) problems that I would like to highlight, among perhaps many others of the same kind: 1. The authorship is divided between composer and director; many times the temp-track or the direction determines extrinsically the nature of the outcome. This creates a challenge for…
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This habit allowed me to compose soundtracks quicker and better for comissions with deadlines
This habit is a game changer for me: to observe DURING the composing proccess how effective my workflow habits were. This means, to save some free time while you compose in order to confront yourself about some habits. The reason for this is that, paradoxically, only when you are actually composing some piece in some…
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Obssessive Motivic Development
This scene at 1:16:00 https://youtu.be/9Bpld0nGL2I?si=I7-z0FIONkIflCSA&t=4552 shows a great example of very insistent motivic development to score a tense moment and increase expectaitons. The technique is almost like a signature of Schostakovich, the expressionist Beethoven . DEvelopment is an abuse of language, because what he does here is to KEEP the motive for a long amount of…
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MEMIFICATION OF ART
Should we give stupid titles to musical artworks in order to rank better on algorithm? As you see my last piece got 4 times more engagement with the stupid title.This piece was released many times before, with almost no engagement. This is one of the pieces that gave me more jobs or students. I call…
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Theory of Musical Titles
No one speaks about this…. But I have been developing some elements for a theory of musical titles, principally programmatic ones. Once I get more engagement on Patreon I want to cover in detail many informations about it that are going to put in you in the realm of 10% of composers.