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Death to homophonic harmonies!
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill
<moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote:
Is there a single beatboxer who when doing a demo video does NOT start to do homophonic harmonies?
Yes. A friend of mine played with my looper and did all this awesome ambient stuff that would never have occurred to me. I know I have a lot of Bobby McFerrin in my skull and it keeps wanting to get out.
But this is actually a very interesting question. How do you get out of a musical "rut"? I keep finding myself making relatively similar improvisations. On the one hand, I feel I should just do what comes naturally, since it's an _expression_ of my musical instinct -- and I need practice at everything I do with looping-wise. But on the other hand, harmonies are very easily overdone and there is an infinity of other possibilities.
What do you all do to crack yourselves out of making your old familiar type of music?
Cheers,
Rob
(p.s. I don't really mean the subject line -- I will always love homophonic harmony madly -- but it should add some energy to the thread ;-)
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