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makeusabrew wrote:Cheers kindofblue,

that is pretty much it, i dont even need to perform it.

You are right about having substantial creative work, which i would like to be a selection compositions, I'm all ready to get started on them (well i say that, but i mean im mentally ready to start working on them and crack on with this project) apart from i need to know what is the focus and the drive behind the compositions, what are they showing, which is what im trying to figure out with everyone now. there has to be a reason for me to be writing the pieces to be showing something, then i will have something to write about for the evaluation, not just 'i made a selection of dubstep compositions because i waned to show you that i can write dubstep'..hmmm

I like TEQH's idea

"Perhaps you could write about the stylistic influences of early electronic music on underground electronic music of 21st Century and you could take early tracks and try and mold their sound into a modern context through your practical pieces."

I could look at some Stockhausen pieces or some other old experimental electronica and try and modernise them into dubsteppy pieces. I guess i would have to try and find a piece that i could find some similarities to a more modern piece. But then what would it be that i was trying to prove? that there are similarities? I guess i would need to figure out a more specific similarity or specific type of influence..

I feel like im getting somewhere, a little

Thanks for the help everyone,,

I might keep this post as a sort of a blog for my ideas. If anyone wants to add anything it would be greatly appreciated!!

Helen
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makeusabrew wrote:
I was also thinking about relationships between electronic music and architecture, i could write some interesting pieces and choose specific buildings to compare them to..

kindofblue272 wrote:

makeusabrew wrote:
I was also thinking about relationships between electronic music and architecture, i could write some interesting pieces and choose specific buildings to compare them to..

don't do that. that idea sounds like you're putting the chicken before the egg ... other than the fact that some architects happen to be musicians or like music or use music as an analogy for certain architectural concepts, i don't think there really are a whole lot of meaningful relationships between architecture and music ...

the relationship between music and 2-dimensional images is tenuous enough as it is (illustrated by the fact that you can pick a DVD blindfolded and toss it in while you're DJing and you'll notice connections)
--much less the relationship between music and 3-dimensional objects.

keep trying and you'll come up with something better. if you really want to involve dubstep, i'm sure your professors will find a little bit of basic musicological work to be refreshing since it's most likely a culture that isn't familiar to them ... the simpler your topic, the more solid it will be. for example--"technological mediation in the composition and production of bass music" = awesome title, simple idea. write about what technologies make dubstep possible, where they came from, what new uses dubstep producers in particular have invented for these technologies, and how proficiency with these instruments is passed through various channels like the internet. then, illustrate with your own productions. voila, top marks.

Thanks kindofblue,
The past couple of days i've been really considering the idea of Architecture, but now that you have said what you did, I'm thinking that maybe my tutors will also not find it a very good idea." technological mediation in the composition and production of bass music " does sound very good, and the what you said about the the title being simpler is true,

I have found lots of stuff on relationships between architecture and music

harmony, rhythm, structure, measure, texture, development, theme, theme and variations, phrase, form, interval, symmetry, taxis and timbre.

"Architecture as 'frozen music', there exist a great cornucopia of connections; both in the language and composition of each. 'Structure', 'Rhythm' and 'Texture' are only a few of the ideas shared by music and architecture"

And there is the project that Iannis Xenaki worked on with someone,

I moved away from the idea of trying to be able to include Dubstep compositions , and was thinking I would end up writing something that is more experimental electronica (so it could always include the odd bit off dubstep influence, no reason why not)

Hmmmm, still got my thinking cap on!

thanks for your support

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makeusabrew wrote: Thanks kindofblue,
The past couple of days i've been really considering the idea of Architecture, but now that you have said what you did, I'm thinking that maybe my tutors will also not find it a very good idea." technological mediation in the composition and production of bass music " does sound very good, and the what you said about the the title being simpler is true,

I have found lots of stuff on relationships between architecture and music

harmony, rhythm, structure, measure, texture, development, theme, theme and variations, phrase, form, interval, symmetry, taxis and timbre.

"Architecture as 'frozen music', there exist a great cornucopia of connections; both in the language and composition of each. 'Structure', 'Rhythm' and 'Texture' are only a few of the ideas shared by music and architecture"

And there is the project that Iannis Xenaki worked on with someone,

I moved away from the idea of trying to be able to include Dubstep compositions , and was thinking I would end up writing something that is more experimental electronica (so it could always include the odd bit off dubstep influence, no reason why not)

Hmmmm, still got my thinking cap on!

thanks for your support

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jagle wrote:try working all with one technique of sound design
all found sounds? recordings of getting the buss to uni in the morning