I'm continuing this series of tips for composing music with a post about imperfection. I've been trawling through the ol' music back catalogue to add to the new Music Store. It's been a real trip down memory lane, listening to tracks I created when fresh out of music college. (Edit: As of August 2010 the …
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Is any music that is created for a purpose, other than that of it's own existence, art? Is film music art, or theatre music, or advert music, or music that appears on a CD-Rom presentation, or accompanying a website promo film, or music on a trailer? Even if the music's primary purpose is purely commercial - to sell that product or promote another - does that preclude its intrinsic value as art?
Composing on a computer sequencer with software/outboard synthesizers and samples is quite a bit different to composing for real instruments. There's no substitute for an orchestra when that's the sound you want. However, if you think of your kit as something other than an orchestra-in-a-box, and write instead to its strengths, you might not ever …
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