Re: Death to homophonic harmonies!

[Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net>]

I listen to Imogen Heap for inspiration.
Tyler Z
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:48:44 -0700, Rob Jellinghaus wrote:



>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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