Music Style: "Post IOS era"

ecamburn

It seems like there's a complex relationship between the music I've produced, the tools I've used, and the music I listen to. After playing rock for years, I began using the tools of electronic music to make, controversial as it may sound, electronic music. After listening mainly to rock in my teens and 20s, I've grown to love a bunch of electronic genres. To me these are examples of tools influencing style and tastes, and tastes influencing production. I dunno how much experience has to do with all this. I had been an accoustic musician for nearly 15 years before being introduced to the tools of electronic music. Despite being a rock drummer, I started knocking out electronic tunes with my TR 727 and CZ 100.

It's complicated. Like @Fruitbat1919 and others have shared, life intervenes. In my case conditions were driven by budget, physical space, and available time. Computer/ios music was a perfect match (and still is) to my lot in life. And I'm grateful for that.

You seem like you have a lot to offer @Flexinoodle. If you have a chill attitude, this is a really enjoyable place to hang out.

telecharge

@Flexinoodle said:
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

lukesleepwalker

The online streaming services have done interesting analysis of listening habits based on age, gender, etc. This one looks at habits related to season:

https://insights.spotify.com/us/2016/09/21/music-and-seasons/

lukesleepwalker

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

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

Mrs Sleepwalker gets annoyed sometimes but she's come to understand the therapeutic benefit.

RUST( i )K

@lukesleepwalker said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

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

Mrs Sleepwalker gets annoyed sometimes but she's come to understand the therapeutic benefit.

I tried explaining that the cocaine was because I liked the smell of it but she never bought it................

u0421793

I started out making music on a pair of intermodulating 555s on a breadboard, back in the late 70s. By 1980 I'd moved up to a 76477. Then whilst at art college I built half of a Digisound 80 modular synth. In the mid 80s I had a 6800 based computer that started life as a cash register, but reprogrammed to run a debug monitor (it was all from a magazine project), and to that I added a ZN427 DAC and made sawtooth waveforms (when after many months, my programme eventually worked). Then about a decade after that I got a few other synths with those funny black and white slabs on the front. The iPad is strange in that respect. It's so much flatter, and so far the magic blue smoke has yet to escape from it.

kgmessier

@u0421793 said:
I started out making music on a pair of intermodulating 555s on a breadboard, back in the late 70s. By 1980 I'd moved up to a 76477. Then whilst at art college I built half of a Digisound 80 modular synth. In the mid 80s I had a 6800 based computer that started life as a cash register, but reprogrammed to run a debug monitor (it was all from a magazine project), and to that I added a ZN427 DAC and made sawtooth waveforms (when after many months, my programme eventually worked). Then about a decade after that I got a few other synths with those funny black and white slabs on the front. The iPad is strange in that respect. It's so much flatter, and so far the magic blue smoke has yet to escape from it.

Magic blue smoke is just a tool.

telecharge

There's at least one tool in this thread.

db909

It'd be hard for me to say if iOS has changed my music tastes. I listen to less music now, preferring to get a musical fix from tinkering with sounds myself. But the abundance of sound flavors has led me to appreciate a wider variety of music when I do hear it so that's a plus. As for tools influencing the output or whatever, probably varies from person to person, but I do think the apps (tools) have given me a multitude of different perspectives on what music is. With all the different functionality, each one is kind of like taking a closer look at a specific aspect of music and so it contributes to a wider appreciation of music in general I think. I can thank Ikaossilator for showing me how ridiculously easy music is at its core and also giving me a hard lesson in "less is more". So at the end of the day, it's great to have enough variety of iOS tools that anyone can find the app or several that fits the way their own brain conceptualizes music and have a lot of fun.

ecamburn

@kgmessier said:
In the mid 80s I had a 6800 based computer that started life as a cash register, but reprogrammed to run a debug monitor (it was all from a magazine project), and to that I added a ZN427 DAC and made sawtooth waveforms (when after many months, my programme eventually worked).

That's some old school DIY shizzle there.

[Deleted User]

No matter what tools I use or what magic rituals I perform,
lala always sounds like lala.
That's good, I guess.
Only when don't know what Iam doing and trying stuff for the first time I get something different, hm guess I should record those tryouts.
Certain tools can you lead to a certain way of doing things because they are easy to do with that, but if you notice that it doesn't do any harm, you can bend it so it fits your ideas most of the time.
I have done really esoteric sounding stuff with rather simple tools, you would never guess it was done with that.

[Deleted User]

On a sidenote, why should tools I use change my musical taste?
I don't understand the question.

You mean like I used to be a flamenco guitarist, then I bought a distortion stombbox, now I play doom metal and drip swine blood all over me?

It works the other way around for me, so you hear that thing or that effect everywhere,
I make sure not to use it like that or at all.

u0421793

A few weeks ago I got a new digital multimeter with a diode measurement function, and around that time I developed a habit of searching for youtube videos of Steve Martin's banjo playing, so I suppose it is true.

[Deleted User]

^^

rarien

I think the answer should include the possibility that "no inherent change happened to my musical creation since iOS arrived".
Creating things like music is usually a subjective and personal undertaking, no?

[Deleted User]

RUST( i )K

@lala said:
On a sidenote, why should tools I use change my musical taste?
I don't understand the question.

You mean like I used to be a flamenco guitarist, then I bought a distortion stombbox, now I play doom metal and drip swine blood all over me?

It works the other way around for me, so you hear that thing or that effect everywhere,
I make sure not to use it like that or at all.

Using your analogy, it is that the availability of every effect pedal and guitar at your fingertips so easily with IOS allos an easier expansion into nether regions irrrespective of ones' comfort zone.

I would have never invested in so many drum machines because I couldn't afford it. VST or hardware. With IOS, bam, every drum I could imagine in a fun way.

That is my angle on this topic.

The overall ability of IOS music production allowing for a wider opportunity of experimenting with various equiptment and sounds that would otherwise be unaffordable or just available for that fact.

Nevermind the wonderment of apps like Samplr and Flux pad that have really made things different for me.

IOS music production and the IOS specific apps in particular have made it easier to get things from my brain to my ears.

telecharge

@db909 said:
So at the end of the day, it's great to have enough variety of iOS tools that anyone can find the app or several that fits the way their own brain conceptualizes music and have a lot of fun.

This.