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Future of Techno Pop Music

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From:  Fabrizio J. Bonsignore - view profile
Date:  Wed, Jan 30 2002 5:53 am
Email:   fbonsign...@beethoven.com (Fabrizio J. Bonsignore)
Groups:   rec.music.compose
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I'd like to hear your opinions and arguments on the future of 'mixing'
classic ideas/style with techno ideas/sounds. I'm toying with the idea
of a 'synthetic orchestra', kind of establishing a synth-only or
synth-traditional instrumentation paralleling the roles of traditional
groups. My instrument is a GR30 synth guitar and I sing and whistle,
but no matter how hard I try I cannot make my music sound 'modern',
i.e., like pop/rock songs, but sounds more in the line of
Bruckner/Sibelius/Schostakovich. I have some scored drafts for
symphonies/symphonic poems in MIDI format, and though I don't have the
polyphonic power to sound like a full-blown orchestra, even writing
for a compact orchestra (early Beethoven's type) is such hard work I
feel wary at the thought of producing unpublishable music. Dispensing
with traditional instrumentation requirements alleviates some of the
work, as balancing, phrasing, etc, can be achieved at taste within the
computer, but then it's music that cannot go live without arrangement
or tapes >:(. As for style, it sounds too classical for modern ears,
too modern for classical ears and not weird enough for XX century
music fans, besides being too obtrusive for movie scores. Overall, the
problem comes from the will of publishing; for domestic music is no
problem since it's for your own enjoyment. Yet it becomes an issue for
a would-be professional, as it becomes a matter of
following-my-instincts vs. following-the-market, and I wouldn't like
to be a 'see-my-page!' author as you can't make a living out of it. I
feel, too, that classical music is on the wane, despite being the most
broad-scoped musical thinking we've developed. It may be updated by
assimilating new styles, but most classic-ish music I'm aware of
sounds to me too mellow and shallow to be on equal footing with the
'great ones', specially all reknown rock players who have 'upgraded'
to full orchestra. I suppose if Beethoven's fifth were composed today
it would still be a masterpiece, but sticking to a pure
barroque-classic-romantic style for a contemporary composer is
retrograde thinking. I'm living this tensions within and they are
pretty hard to solve. All suggestions and comments are welcomed.

  d;),