169 Forum Posts by "Phonometrologist"
This is cool. I’m still going to upload tracks that will be downloadable regardless, but this is good for Newgrounds by bringing in more talent.
Wo... funny thread.
uh, to be relevant, the mix sounds fine. The better thing for you to do is to seek advice on the composition aspects of a piece.
At 12/16/14 11:25 PM, larrynachos wrote: Please help! I'm assuming I need some post-secondary education, but I don't know where to start. I live in Minnesota, so if you know of a good school for music electronic composition/production, please let me know!
There isn't a "electronic composition" class as it is just called Music Theory. Though, that WILL help you in any genre regardless. You can always try going to school part-time to see if you want to pursue that even further. You could also try doing a bunch of your own projects, market yourself, and hope that will lead to more opportunities while a non-music job supports you. If you think about any of these composers that ended up establishing themselves, they had a job to support their music for a time, i.e. Philip Glass was a taxi driver so he could support his ensemble.
Keep meeting new people.
I wouldn't be too fearful about it because if you love music, you probably would find yourself doing music regardless of what situation you find yourself in even if it means that for a time it doesn't make you money. Persevere and try to enjoy the journey there.
i just want to leave a comment before it gets locked.
uhhh....... hi!
FYI, if anyone is thinking about posting a new thread about offering their services for free to mix or master someone's work, don't bother. The only person allowed to do this is the OP of this thread!
sorry skye for bumping your old thread for the sake of a satire.... you still looking to master people's tracks?
At 12/5/14 01:42 PM, danielmartin566 wrote: Looks like i'm 2 hours late but if you get any leftovers (best part of christmas dinner?) then I'd love to get an ambient/glitchy track and to try my hand at making something for someone
For the secret santa, there's always a couple of people that end up not creating a track for someone for whatever reason. Although you wouldn't get anything, I would suggest you prepare in stepping in for another at the last minute if you're truly interested.
At 12/5/14 12:41 PM, Stupor wrote: I decided to cut that part to save time. Go find your dude's post yourself, you lazy elf. Ho ho ho.
YOU lazy elf!!!!
I wonder if these would simply suffice...
So in other words, take it with a grain of salt
At 11/27/14 09:02 AM, BlazingDragon wrote: But I'd also say that there are some people who, no matter how hard they try, will never be able to improvise a six-voice fugue or condense an entire symphony to piano by ear after a single hearing.
If you want to write music as great as Mozart's, by all means, do your best! But don't hate yourself and quit music if you can never improvise a six-voice fugue or instantly reduce a twenty minute symphony.
One has to be careful in projecting to others our assumption that these people were born with this innate ability. I think this approach is a bit too simplified IMO. I don't have enough reason to believe that Bach and Mozart were merely savants.
"It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied." -Mozart
It is by history and through admirers that elevate these composers to such a degree as idols/gods.
Your response is correct though-- let this be motivation to work hard on the craft that we have a passion for.
The video with Mozart's Requiem was entertaining. The comic wasn't funny but perhaps informative for some. I still am not sure if that would make these things any easier for people learning theory. But the the idea behind it is good-- one needs different perspectives to understand it which I think is key here.
Oh and the website link is the same as the video link.
Mozart meets Philip Glass:
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Return by PhonometrologistA Threnody
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A threnody written for a close friend.
At 11/10/14 02:21 PM, PirateCrab wrote: Sure, there's pressure involved, sometimes it can seem a little unfair, but the fact I took down multiple teams of 2 before I got knocked out only makes me feel better about my musical capabilities.
I just looked and it appears that you actually had to go up against 2 people every single round...
At 11/10/14 11:05 AM, Troisnyx wrote:
Perhaps when you do visit the good ol' North of England, you might find me and @IrishChieftain waiting? Otherwise, I hope to arrange a tour of the US of A to meet many NG faces and other friends.
When you come to Chicago! I wonder how many on that list of yours, or any NGers, live in the Chicago area where we can host an event.
At 11/6/14 09:12 PM, samulis wrote:At 11/6/14 09:06 PM, Phonometrologist wrote:Well, I didn't use Skye's judging technique, just the way of breaking down the score. XDAt 11/6/14 09:03 PM, samulis wrote: roflOH... well.. now it all makes sense! lol
I used Skye's judging system, more or less. ;)
You shouldn't really have been all that surprised. No offense to Skye
This is still one of my favorite interactions:
Upon reviewing King's Quest by Bosa...
SkyeWint
Rated 3 / 5 stars July 24, 2012
"Alright, well, I've recieved a message asking me to review this, and therefore. A review shall be born.
Also, this review will be rather harsher this time, not scaling it on the normal one I do. I will be giving this the same kind of review that I would give in the NGADM. So in case any of the other contestants see this, or if you get in, Bosa, they and/or you will know what kind of thing to expect from me."
etc.........................................................
Bosa responds:
"I just read this again from last year and I was reminded of how angry this made me, especially since I consider this my best classical song to date.
I will try to erase this from my memory now."
At 11/6/14 09:03 PM, samulis wrote:At 11/6/14 08:58 PM, Phonometrologist wrote:roflAt 11/6/14 08:49 PM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote: People complaining about scoring... And I didn't even judge this year.Nor did Skye
I used Skye's judging system, more or less. ;)
OH... well.. now it all makes sense! lol
You shouldn't really have been all that surprised. No offense to Skye
At 11/6/14 08:49 PM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote: People complaining about scoring... And I didn't even judge this year.
Nor did Skye
All valid points, but I just want to say that no matter how you slice it, every contest will have its flaws. But whatever, it’s all fun. It’s never meant to be something we place our identities in. Congrats to those that ended up placing at the end. Well-deserved, and I wouldn’t want to detract from this thread in accidently making the winners feel like it means nothing by talking about the flaws of the contest. It's tough
At 11/4/14 04:46 PM, Echo wrote: --- Step: 9.2
--- Neon-Bard: 8.8
--- headphoamz: 9.8
--- MetalRenard: 8
--- midimachine: 8
--- samulis: 6.2
LOL Sam... you really played the antithesis of Echo in this contest
But I enjoyed your reviews regardless
If I knew Rhunyc was doing the signatures, perhaps I would have tried harder lawl. Very tasteful sigs
At 10/18/14 08:13 PM, NUReviews wrote: I'm open to any genre
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From The Ashes by PhonometrologistArise, shine, for your light has come... -Isaiah 60
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Tomorrow's Lullaby by PhonometrologistAs for man, his days are like grass
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Ectopic beat by PhonometrologistA short ambient track of trepidation.
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Hope by PhonometrologistGrief's greatest music...
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Psalm 32 by PhonometrologistA piano composition that I wrote inspired by the likes of Chopin to Goldmund.
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Yurgenburgen is right.
To be good in anything requires a lot of work, but I would also agree that there needs to be something that inclines an individual to be good at a particular art. Never had a passion for creating art visually so naturally I never developed those skills. The passion comes probably from a mixture of being born with and brought up within a certain environment that nourishes that.
Rhythm as in "feeling" the beat seems to be something you just have in order for it be a subconscious way of expressing, but you don't really need to be "good" at it to create music as long as you know how to count and divide.
At 10/14/14 11:26 PM, Profanity wrote: The entire universe?? Do you realize how insulting to common sense that is?? Obviously they're not traveling farther than our local star cluster to find resources and planets to settle. They're not even leaving a sliver of our spiral arm of the Milky Way. It would take millions of years to go far enough to lose track of any specific star. That's like walking down the street to a bodega and then expecting to never find the same store ever again, because if you tried you're pretty sure you'd end up in Djibouti or Polynesia. Actually, it's like dropping your cell phone in a couch and expecting to find it in orbit around Neptune.
I admit that "entire" is a poor choice of wording but my point is in the vastness of their travels. You're assuming that they've been down this path before. You over-simplified your argument with that analogy of comparing it to a local store and even a couch. 39 light years from Earth? Really? It was mentioned that the Nostromo is "just short of Zeta II Reticuli, not even reached the outer rim yet" I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on Astronomy, but mind you, we're talking about a hypothetical construct as if we even know for sure what it would be like tracking down the same planet that the Nostromo visited. To me it makes more sense that Weyland foreknew as opposed to it being purely coincidental as supposedly it has been 57 years while we find out that they have already been settled on that planet for quite some time. They found that planet pretty quickly.
It's not a writer's job to hold your hand through the entire movie.
lol As if that was even my point--straw man
We both come to the conclusion that this isn't so much an inconsistency that Weyland started to colonize the same planet that the Nostromo visited, but we differ in how we got there.
Thank you for this derision on such an inconsequential topic.
about to be derailed
At 10/14/14 11:07 PM, Profanity wrote: That's not the only planet which has been colonized, but it's also not the only planet which has been visited by the Engineers.
I prefer the name Space Jockey
And there's an inconsistency:
Didn't imagine the "Engineer" from Prometheus to look the way they did.
At 10/14/14 08:40 PM, Profanity wrote: Because she was asleep for 57 years, no one on Earth knew that the planet was a dangerous place. During her 57 years of deep sleep, people tried to settle the planet.
I would argue that Weyland did know as the crew were ordered to investigate, and they did not care whether it was dangerous. Moreover, that is probably why families were sent to colonize there in the first place.
But perhaps that is just me looking too much into it, but how else would you explain them finding that planet again in the entire universe, and it's hard for me to believe that once Mother intercepted the transmission that it wasn't also sent to their employer. Ash corresponded with them from the very beginning.
There's a fine line between reasoning and making excuses for these writers, though lol.
I like to collect words and eventually sentences
Not being a smart ass--I keep documents of interesting things people have to say
Well if Johnfn hasn't begun working on his piece yet, this should be good news for him==10 second piece of a generic C Major scale wins it!
Battle covers play,
Nano transformation hope--
Search for Newgrounds sounds.
At 9/19/14 01:56 PM, DamienFleisch wrote: If you think diminished chords sound bad, why not give Penderecki a try!
I've come to enjoy Penderecki so much that it actually has become pleasing to my ears. I'm not being facetious either.
now people aren't going to take me seriously
