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Music Style: "Post IOS era"
Has your musical taste or style changed since ios music creation has become big in your arsenal?
Or, was this a natural evolution that would happened anyway?
I can say that for me it is both.
The abundance of "loops" and "lego" style music creation along with the never ending EDM festival mindset have left me in a new place.
Funny thing is the place is where I was when I first started performing and creating music.
I thing IOS has allowed me the flexibility to go many directions easier than I could with PC music creation. In doing so, I am back at my roots. That being early NY Hip Hop, Industrial, and Punk flavored electronic fusion alternative type stuff. Eric B and Rakim, Tribe called Quest, Ministy, Skinny Puppy, Beastie Boys, Jesus and Mary Chain, Christian Death, and even Black Flag actually.
VST's were an investment, a $10 app is an impulse buy that potentially gives me a creative blast I haven't felt in years.
So, what about you? Where are you in your creative arc and has it been affected by the IOS music creation boom?
Comments
interesting question.
I listen to everything. I do prefer metal, for sure. But, I think what ios has done for me, is......Allowed me to play, and record Techno/electronic/EDM/House music. I love that stuff too. But, I've never had a keyboard(other than a cheap Casio or Yamaha.) I've never had a way to record music. So ios has deff. helped me do all of that.
IOS music making apps have enabled me in so many ways as a music maker. It hasn't so much changed my tastes, as added to them, and given me a greater appreciation of how adding A to B crossed with C, and fed through E and G can often result in something that is not only unusual, but also highly credible and very professional sounding.
It is thanks to my on-going journey, always learning and experimenting, that I am making music which, many years ago when I was in the 'real' instrument world, would've been far, far beyond what I could achieve. At least without the assistance of dozens of top quality musicians and many weeks of hideously expensive studio time.
Now it is all literally in the palm of my hand.
I don't think my musical tastes have changed or even expanded as a result of the iOS music revolution. Rather, it has helped me realize just how much I like vintage synthesizers. This comes from personal discovery by way of apps like Magellan and Model 15. I guess I was an old-skool synthhead without even knowing it.
I have always made music. I have always listened to music. The general formula in my case has almost always been the same when I write music not-for-a-band: the more extreme metal I listen to, the calmer and more relaxing ambient music I write. That was true before iOS, and is still true today.
When in a band I most often also wrote extreme metal though, among other things (the drummer I've played the longest with I met in a Jazz/Fusion constellation, so anything goes as long as it involves music that is made by people), but it was some time since I had good music collaboration partners, regardless of genres, basically leaving me on my own, which usually yields dark melancholic Scandinavian ambient stuff.
So...not much has changed for me, except for the possibilities, which are more now. That in itself is a blessing as my life now involves proper jobs, owning a house, 2 kids & wife etc.
Nope. I fell into electronic genres 30 years ago as a practical solution to not being able to have a drum kit in an apartment. I was completely sucked in in the early 2000s with Cakewalk's Project 5 - a pattern based sequencer. Along the way I've come to really enjoy and appreciate many electronic genres - chill, psytrance, D&B, jungle, trance (yes tarnce!). But all of this happened way before I ever started using ios tools. For me, ios is a slight variation on the computer music scene.
It as allowed me to return to the music I first started playing as a teenager. Tape manipulations, circuits from Gordon Mumma's books, signal generators, Mini-Korg based music. In my 20s, I remade myself as a Johnny Thunder/Jeffreylee Pierce/Keef rockandroll animal ("Fuck that techno wanking!") and tried to cover any trace of my knowledge of the avant garde (whatever that is)That path eventually led to slide and steel guitar and performing "Americana" music.
Today, iOS affords me access to more
synths and sound manipulation devices than my teenaged self could have ever imagined. It's a blast.
iOS hasn't changed my listening proclivities. It has allowed me to capture the sounds I hear in my head whenever and wherever I am. Which is astounding enough.
Jung (et. al.) -not having any guess as to what iOS might stand for- would have been interested in the possibilities of the therapeutic future from reading your entry
I'm feel 99% as @RustiK but the other 1% goes to the fact I was pushing my confort zone in music production since day 1 so I jumped from Hiphop to Dub which is really where I should started...
Ios has made me more experimental and wanting to play with my voice in a different way than my standard beatboxing/guitar looping. Im really loving sampling with ios and the touch screen, connects me deeper with my voice in a new way, that sampling my voice into Logic or Ableton hasnt done yet
iOS definitely reinvigorated my love for synth music. Though that may just be a bit of 'the times' as well.
No regrets here fam!
The streets are a state of mind not a type of sound.
I had a much smaller toolset before iOS came around. To get something that sounded good to me, I really had to twist and fold the stock sounds at my disposal. The result of this is that I found a distinct composition method and consistent personal style in there somewhere. It's harder to find that same groove now that I have so many methods and sounds to choose from— not too mention many of them tend to nudge you toward EDM (not my thing). You can literally do anything now, and it's kind of messed up my mojo, I have to admit.
That said, I have so little time for composing these days that if it weren't for the immediacy and portability of making music on a mobile, I probably wouldn't be doing it at all anymore.
Exactly.
My musical taste has remained the same. I'm in the same boat with @aaronpc in terms of having relatively few musical tools that I used before iOS. It's safe to say there really wasn't sufficient musical production on my part to even worry about whether it had any sort of style.
No, IOS/iPads are tools, not musical taste, and they have zero influence on your music, much like Windows and OSX don't
You must be a lot of fun at parties.
Luckily the type of apps that iOS has tended to spew forth have been in the right ballpark of tools I can use and can make sounds I like. There are few apps I dont think I could use. Problem is finding the time and inspiration to use them all
What ?
Are you suggesting i am wrong, or just throwing insults because you have some misguided belief that you are humourous ?
No change.
I have a different perspective, the iOS music creation apps you end up using more frequently can influence your musical taste in the same way that learning a particular instrument can influence your musical tastes. Not everyone will experience shifts in their musical taste via iOS app use, but it seems reasonable to think that some will.
It would also make even more sense that you'd tend to purchase apps in line with your initial musical tastes. Nevertheless, it's been my experience that musical tastes can evolve over time in response to the music we're exposed to and iOS music apps are another source we're more or less influenced by.
Right there with ya....
@Sebastian can we get a "What Johnny said" emoji-thingie? It would save so many so much typing. Like Johnny tends to do
I find it likely that most people being influenced by a music app would be at the start of their music making journey and more likely to be influenced by music of the time, more experienced musicians are more likely to have little influence from a tool on their music making (neither way is better or any other rubbish some over sensitive forum policeman decides to put words in my mouth with)
@other garbage posted
Gotta love the fact that i point something out, get disrespected (even though what i pointed out is a fact, IOS is just an OS, iPada tool) and a bunch of oh so useful posts follow, what a great bunch of forum users hahaha
Sure! I was trying to point at
"I started with HipHop but found myself doing more dub approach which made me an alien in my circle of friends until I saw Dub Echoes and understand who I am" xD
In my coutry (Spain) it's hard to find true autenticity in Hiphop musicians (usually the few I found or know are aliens too) and the most common is people stuck to rules of style. You could find the same at Reggae and Dub music but I just don't care anymore. Dub is the origin for lots of actual styles and it has happiest mod also so instead argue and fight I started to enjoy life and share my best.
Not other drug than music involved in this process.
Don't hear anything without asking a Professor (Mad are best).
If you have doubts ask your Selektah.
Adlerian post much?
Santa didn't bring someone the IPad they wanted for Christmas.
I am sorry- so tell me about the best electronic music produced in the 60s?
House music from the 50's?
Dance music sounded like what in the 80s?
See how this is real easy to understand. By using your own examples that actually Windows and OSX did influence musical taste. Both on micro and macro levels.
Besides your specific examples of discredidation. Let's head in another direction.
Fire is also just a tool.
Vehicles are merely tools as well.
I thing that means that probably air conditioning is just a tool of modern convenience and living.
Are you saying that these "tools" have had no impact on the course of people's internal desires and possibilities?
You my friend actually seem like a bit of a tool. Today anyway. Such an obtuse and gratuitously condescending attempt at causing inflammatory discourse has fallen flat.
I think the music I've been making, well noises anyway, over the past couple of years has influenced what I listen to...a bit anyway. I've been listening to long, experimental pieces and drone stuff - much more than I would have done, before I started trying to do this stuff myself. So yeah, maybe.
Perhaps it would be more useful if you replaced 'your' with 'my'.
Ultimately, your 'facts' are only 'facts' to yourself and not to anyone else.
Other people's experiences are not the same as yours and it is more helpful to speak of ones own experience rather than make pronouncements on the experiences of others.
I, for example , first played a MiniMoog in the early 1980s , have loved the sound since ELPs 'Lucky Man ', and have owned iMini for a couple of years now. The chance to own a replica of that synth( plus scores of others)on IOS at a few dollars has been a huge current source of inspiration and influence on both the style of music I play and in the refinement of my musical tastes.
There are also many, many styles of music that I now embrace which I wouldn't have if not for iOS . And I can make that statement after 30 years as a computer based musician.
My musical tastes have always evolved over time.
Has iOS music making had an effect on those changes? I would say yes it has. In what way is hard to pin down, but I have no doubt even at my middle age years and time making sound, I still am highly influenced by all that I meet along life's journey. iOS has without doubt been one such meeting.
I really have no doubt that the sound I make has an influence on the music I hunt out to listen to.
I really have no doubts that had I bought a rack of modular gear instead of my iPad, I would be making different music.
But it's also obvious to me that my meeting iOS is only one influence. My health has had a hugh influence on what music I make and what I listen to.
My financial situation (linked to my health) has also had a hugh impact on my music making and what I listen to.
I, like some others here, would probably not be making music at this time without iOS
And just to add:
I have also been influenced by some of the great people I have met on the AudioBus forums.