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The mouth organ, an offence against music?

TheCatWoman

To me it is, here was someone playing or preforming counry and westerm music earlier and was playing one of these instruments of aural torture, I mean C&W is bad enough, but combine it with a mouth organ, or gob iron as they're also known as, is just offensive. To me its finger nails down a blackboard level of horrible.

Any of you have instruments you can't stand he sound of?

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  • A study of microtonality helps with the tuning thing - there's beauty to be found in wonky pitch. 

    Really any instrument played well can sound beautiful, and played badly awful.

    I like/try to make music where there is a balance between beauty and ugliness. Disharmony, grating, abstract stuff in and amongst something that is pretty in some way. I don't always achieve that - I've done things which lean to far either way. 

    I've made many things that people here (anywhere!) would find excruciating to listen to, but there's beauty in for me. Maybe sometimes that is just in the creation. As an outlet it has helped me hugely - music is my only 'special interest' that has been totally life-long. 

  • in reply to Acquiesce

    Whats microtonality?

    I find the harp can go either way for me, I love the way Florence and the Machine use it, but I'm not a fan of it as a main instrument.

    I'm not a fan of Bob Dylan and find he really grates on me.

    I love the human voice and will happily listen to medieval choral music, especially the really complex harmonies of people like John Bird and Thomas Tallis, but others hate them

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Microtonal music is music outside of the western standard of 12 notes/semitones per octave (EDO*). In other regions/styles there are more (or less) notes per octave - 96 EDO is the highest I've heard of, though there are many (31 and 22 are particularly interesting) and that probably is not the highest. Each EDO system can be used to emote different responses for the listener, a bit like scales can - for example many think of minor keys being sad. (They can also sound like the performer is a bit drunk!)

    There's a whole other universe of music out there, much of which is a challenging listen initially, but also really beautiful. Traditional Thai and Balinese music is perhaps a good starting point, but some of the more modern electronic performance based stuff can also incredible*. 

    *EDO stands for Equal Divisions of the Octave

    Hopefully links are ok, sorry if not; youtu.be/MgTfDtNFbeE

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Microtonal music is music outside of the western standard of 12 notes/semitones per octave (EDO*). In other regions/styles there are more (or less) notes per octave - 96 EDO is the highest I've heard of, though there are many (31 and 22 are particularly interesting) and that probably is not the highest. Each EDO system can be used to emote different responses for the listener, a bit like scales can - for example many think of minor keys being sad. (They can also sound like the performer is a bit drunk!)

    There's a whole other universe of music out there, much of which is a challenging listen initially, but also really beautiful. Traditional Thai and Balinese music is perhaps a good starting point, but some of the more modern electronic performance based stuff can also incredible*. 

    *EDO stands for Equal Divisions of the Octave

    Hopefully links are ok, sorry if not; youtu.be/MgTfDtNFbeE

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