Good lesson

mlexicon · Post by **mlexicon** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:24 pm

Quick little read about setting limits in design, i think it most definitely applies to music as well. Hope someone gets something out of it.

http://www.wired.com/culture/design/mag ... 3/dp_intro

Phurniture · Post by **Phurniture** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:25 am

This part of the article is perhaps the best advice:

"Think of a young tree, a sapling. With water and sunshine, it can grow tall and strong. But include some careful pruning early in its development—removing low-hanging branches—and the tree will grow taller, stronger, faster. It won't waste precious resources on growth that doesn't serve its ultimate purpose."

thom · Post by **thom** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:56 am

Phurniture wrote:
"...But include some careful pruning early in its development—removing low-hanging branches—and the tree will grow taller, stronger, faster. ..."

OR

Get a pet elk that will eat those.

Atheory · Post by **Atheory** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:52 am

thom wrote:
Get a pet elk that will eat those.

thats your solution to everything.

JonasEdenbrandt · Post by **JonasEdenbrandt** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:19 am

Maybe it will look prettier if you leave the useless branches...

Good story about Shenker who analyzed music by removing non essential bits to get to a music piece basics. When Schoenberg saw this way of analyzing he said "Where did everything beautiful go?"

gonna have a look at the article, seems intresting

NewSc2 · Post by **NewSc2** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:21 am

From the article:

"Miles Davis conceived Kind of Blue without the use of a single chord."

huh? I hear lots of chords in Kind of Blue. Playing it now. Sure, Miles Davis's trumpet doesn't play any, but it's a monophonic instrument—it can't play chords.

livecollective · Post by **livecollective** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:16 am

NewSc2 wrote:From the article:

"Miles Davis conceived Kind of Blue without the use of a single chord."

huh? I hear lots of chords in Kind of Blue. Playing it now. Sure, Miles Davis's trumpet doesn't play any, but it's a monophonic instrument—it can't play chords.

lol, quality.

manzatour · Post by **manzatour** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:28 pm

excluding "blue in green" all tracks are modal or blues based (all blues), of course there is harmonic content in the album, but it is not where the strenght is...