133 Forum Posts by "Twoism"
Words cannot describe just how awful this thread and the people who posted in it are.
Who, at any one point, has been cocky other than you?
You're all rediculous.
Music is music. Regardless of instrument/genre/style/choice.
Stop argueing over who is keeping the music business alive. You shouldn't even be thinking about that. You should be thinking about creativity, intellect, revision, practise, imagination. You all need to access the argument in a purely pros/cons demeanor. Instead of this 1-up-ing.
It's childish, repetetive, and gets nowhere.
At 2/9/08 01:19 PM, PhlostonRecords wrote: Its funny how every "expert" in their parents basement critiques that beat as being terrible because its so simple. Has anyone ever heard of MINIMALISM?! Not saying its a good song but if theres any musical value in it its what they are able to do with 2-3 tracks.
Superman that OOHHHH
has anyone seen the travis barker remix? what an attention whore.
It's funny how you took what he said. Created a huge speil about it. And answered questions and points he never made.
Experts indeed...
Violin - 1.5 years
Melodian(not sure on how to spell it, it's like a mini-keyboard) - 4 years
You've been playing it 4 years and you havn't learnt how to spell it?
Personally I loved the post about Radiohead.
Drums 12 years.
Guitar 3/4 years.
Piano 5 Years
Violin 5 years.
Trumpet 10 years.
The ethics of buying music.
Explained.
On newgrounds.
Great...
That's a pretty interesting comment about Radiohead.
Seeing as Johnny Greenwood has composed two classical albums. Was trained classically. And can definately, read and write sheet music.
At 5/22/08 09:45 AM, d00derson wrote: At 5/22/08 06:21
you do realize that neither thom yorke or johnny greenwood (radiohead) ever learned how to read music.
Jonny Greenwood was a classically trained musician and is a composer. He dfeinately knows how to read classical music.
Y'know. Most professional guitar players have their sheet music converted to tab. Tab is considered just as valid as sheet music. Guitar crosses many more octaves at one point than most instruments. Therefore, it's just messier to have it written as sheet music. And the whole point of reading music is to make it clean, and easily readable.
For guitar, tab is easier.
If you'd played guitar in a big band or something you would know this. It's not like sheet music is difficult to read you know. Lose the pomposity. Especcially when you're wrong.
Just torrent official sheet music books. That's what I do. Miles better.
How incredibly arrogant that song is.
It doesn't matter how it is done. Only that it sounds good.
'Posers' though. I can sympathize. The thing is, if you're worth your salt they usually get shafted as the frauds they are.
You'll find you won't get a much better cut then that.
I'd agree with you but you're wrong.
At 3/8/08 03:55 PM, SBB wrote: No please, I usually review songs while they're playing, so I can post a throughout review of the song.
What so none of you guys will listen to a song completely before reviewing? Fuck you're supposed to listentwo or three times then give a review. And even then you still don't know what you'll think after a few more listens.
That's backwards guys, you're in an age where music is more accessable than it has ever been, and you won't even listen oo the whole song before reviewing. Truely awful.
I'm trying to use Renoise at the moment. Tracker music is a weird way of looking at music, but also a quite effective way aswell.
Is always a nice gesture. I was getting annoyed because I thought I just had my delete track option taken away on random tracks, but I've been used in a couple of things.
That's cool yo.
C'mon who inspires you? Try and keep them to a ten list minimum just so we don't have some kid who floods the page with everyone in his downloads folder. So yeah go for it, ten. If you can, include why.
1. Pole: Pole practically nailed what I had been trying to do when I first started making electronic music, a real glitchy sound. Becuase he used a broken TR-909(or so I hear) his music has a weird, popping and cracking effect that I can't emulate as well as I'd like. His latest album Steingarten became one of my regular listens.
2. Philip Glass: No one nails repetative music like Philip Glass. Songs built around themselves, and as such, progress in a much more subtle way, but after listening to his string quintet play an Aaugmented arpeggio for 5 minutes when that top trumpet melody comes in it feels all the more epic. Koyaanisqatsi define film music for me.
3. Dust Brothers: The Dust Brothers are two of the best producers I can think of. Having done the Fight Club soundtrack, they sort of got under-rated under all the awesome hype surrounding the dvd release of the film. While the film is great, I consider the soundtrack better. With an incredibly inventive use of samples, and with the substance equal to their style. They really narrowed their music down to a catchy, dark caricatuer of modern life.
4: Aphex Twin. You can't have an electronic artist not have Aphex Twin in his top influances, it's unheard of. Drukqs and Selected Ambient Works contain some of my all time favourite songs.
5: Boards Of Canada: When I first heard them I thought it was all boring mid-range dirge, but then you sliten again and again and you hear litereally hundreds of things you havn't heard before. Smokes Quantity is my favourite song.
6: Miles Davis: Miles Davis' Bitches Brew contained some of the best jazz improvisation I've ever heard. And while you can't really improve while mixing and creating music on a computer, you can fuck about and record whatever you do and then try and mix it into whatever stupid thing you recorded 5 minutes ago. Brilliant.
7: Radiohead. Kid A/Amnesiac is what got me into electronic music, having only ever really heard Autechre beforehand, my electronic music knowledge wasn't very broad. But it was a great surprise to hear people doing this in a band, and executed so well. Kid A is one of my favourite albums, with Amnesiac containing my favourite Radiohead songs. Also, Kid A and Amnesiac spurred the greated Radiohead b-sides aswell.
8: Autechre. Ultra dub, synth-tastic, dance. The ultra low key dance songs really clicked with me. Focusing on the beat and everything surrounding it rather than the melody/vocal line over the top of it, it really felt like Autechre tried turning the properties of 90s dance music around. And while it had been done before. No one did quite like Autechre, quite as well, or quite as inventive and original.
9: Beach Boys. Now some people dislike me saying this. But Pet Sounds, was better than SGT Pepper's. I love the Beatles, but the Beach Boys just got it right, like perfect right. Pet Sounds is quite possibly my favourite album ever. Pet Sounds being one of the most popular experiemental commercial pop albums of all time, it set the bar for what could be achieved with imagination and patience. Using bike bells and recorders for melody lines rather than vocals. And then using vocals to soothe you through it all the way over the top. They experimented with themselves, as well how to write music. This also spawned lots of classical music in the 60s/70s to do the same.
10: Kraftwerk. Autobahn is why electronic music is so great. The versitility of it, the immense things you can do. And mroe importantly, the simplicity of it. Certain electronic albums create the feel of busyness to a point of confusion. And while making electronic music can be difficult, when learning coding for Max and Reaktor, and other music/macro creating programs. It's all relatively simple realistically. It's all things clipped together in certain ways, and this was what Autobahn was. A series of events, clipped together, really well. Kraftwerk made computerized music not just to make music with sounds people hadn't heard before, but to make it simpler, so that there were clear central themes you could focus on. While this isn't to everyones taste, thinking that they must be taken at face-value and aren't 'growers', they'd be wrong. Autobahn defined Kraftwerk for me, and really, you have to listen to it ten times to even begin to understand it.
ps: if there are spelling mistakes, fuck off. I'm not spell-checking all that.
If you get a chance, let me know how my songs went down. I'd greatly appreciate it.
Cheers.
I just can't explain mine. I think I've realised the most in a year than most other members. Only because I'd finnished most of them prior to joining the site.
Did you post a thread about this before?
At 2/21/08 06:07 PM, Envy wrote:At 2/21/08 04:24 PM, Twoism wrote:At 2/20/08 09:33 PM, Envy wrote:At 2/20/08 05:51 PM, Twoism wrote:At 2/20/08 05:03 PM, Envy wrote:At 2/17/08 02:10 PM, WizardSleeve wrote:At 2/17/08 01:54 PM, Twoism wrote:Stuff like what?original wavs? What are you talking about. Maybe, learn more about the program before you talk about it.
Fucking hell, you say a ton of great things about a program, and someone can't accept the few little discrepencies I have with it. Get off your high horse.
At 2/20/08 09:33 PM, Envy wrote:At 2/20/08 05:51 PM, Twoism wrote:At 2/20/08 05:03 PM, Envy wrote:At 2/17/08 02:10 PM, WizardSleeve wrote:At 2/17/08 01:54 PM, Twoism wrote:FL is a Fun easy to use program, but is not a quality program.Kiddo... You're hardly beyond "kiddo" yourself.
Did I say quality music cannot be craeted in it? No, I didn't Learn to read kiddo
You said it isnt a quality program... I was proving it was, if it's good enough for Rob Mayth. I admit there are a lot of people who dont know how to use it correctly, and that may give off the impression that it isn't quality, but I assure you, learn how to use it and it is VERY high quality program.
Maybe you should read my posts dude. And it's not hoe old you are that determined me calling you kiddo, it was your inability to read. It isn't quality in the sense that you have to EQ everything to death in order to get it sounding like the original wavs. It compresses them so it runs smoother, even on full settings.
So yeah, that is it's fault. I didn't say it wasn't good. I've used it, and I liked it. It's useful. Get over it. And yeah, I've heard Rob Marth. He's ok, rather blaze in my opinion. But I can see why people like it. Luke Vibert used Reason apparently for ages, and he's incredible. But he'll be the first to admit Reason lacks in so many areas.
At 2/20/08 10:38 PM, Sanxion7 wrote: It all comes down to this phrase:
"I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine"
Yeah, this. I don't think I've had many songs above 200+ views, or if any have, but y'know, there'll always be there so people can always listen.
At 2/21/08 01:26 PM, attemptedperfection wrote:At 2/20/08 03:15 PM, Twoism wrote: You've opened the floodgates mate.daaaaaamn; there are a few in there I'd definitely like to use... do you have any actual releases you could send me?
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1 09742
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/9 7023
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1 10832
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/9 6760
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1 10729
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/7 9924
There are loads more but I probably overloaded you already,
go to www.myspace.com/williamhowarth
go to the blog and download the albums.
Any problems pm me.
I have everything kept in my 'Post Office Copyright Envelope' so you can't steal it! >.< . But you can play it any time. I don't even care if you somehow make money out of it, as long as you don't say it's you hahaha.
But yeah thanks alot man I appreciate it.
