Well, a fundamental difference occurs between visual art and music. Our medium happens across time. A picture mirrored is much different than a sequence of musical events reversed, in my opinion.

but anyway, pretentious theoretical stuff aside, a lot of music sounds great reversed. Some composers use complex planning to actually use subject matter which can be reflected upon itself. Lots of canons and fugues do this.

FWIW, I think that this:

was said in respose to this:

which is pretty spot-on, I'd say.

Also: J. S. Bach!

i think that backwards its the same thing. like looking at some visual art reflected L/R. not much is lost

Well, a fundamental difference occurs between visual art and music. Our medium happens across time. A picture mirrored is much different than a sequence of musical events reversed, in my opinion.

but anyway, pretentious theoretical stuff aside, a lot of music sounds great reversed. Some composers use complex planning to actually use subject matter which can be reflected upon itself. Lots of canons and fugues do this.

needless to say, it sounds the same in reverse.

sometimes i end up with better songs than how i wrote them; usually i don't but it's funny anyway.

i think i've tried playing one of my songs backwards before, but i never really got anything out of it

^ Said it way better than I could have. All of this.

Sometimes I play songs at half speed, and you catch timing, pitch issues really easy that way

Yeah, I do this as well, it's hella helpful sometimes.

in the music it can be disconcerting if you use a lot of volume envelopes but otherwise its just a reflection of the original. every atemporal element of the song is identical and some things temporal don't change much either. 4/4 is still 4/4, interval movements are the same but opposite direction, tempo doesn't change.

the song will lose a lot of your intentions depending on how you wrote it - tensions come after resolutions and so on.

if you think of your song in a more abstract organisation of information than just (a sequence of bytes) nothing actually changed apart from the piece of information which says "listen to this forwards". which likely you didn't even encode into your song, everyone just assumed that forwards would be the best direction to listen

so i think that's why it still sounds good backwards. depending on the software you use you may be able to reverse the notes without reversing the sounds - which can be really cool

it's bad because satan can talk to you that way thats why u like it because satan stop b4 too late

no man its ok like the beatles they hide xtra words n secret messages from them u can here