Not gonna lie, I have too much fun digging through computer music's sample packs and finding the like three sounds you just want to use immediately. Thanks for the link TSC.
145 Jan 15, 2014 5:03 am
Re: 8bit Sample Pack in this months computer music (23 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
149 Jan 4, 2014 11:45 am
Re: What's your favorite favorite thread? (24 replies, posted in General Discussion)
150 Dec 31, 2013 8:27 pm
Re: END OF 2013 RETROSPECTIVE (55 replies, posted in General Discussion)
MaxDolensky wrote:
1. Changed my major at university from Management Information Systems to Music Composition
SWITCH BACK
Study music and audit theory/comp courses if you can because it's fulfilling if that's what you're really passionate about, but trust me when I say that, as a music composition major at an all-Steinway conservatory-style school, and someone trying to compose for games and other media for a living, it scares the crap out of me to not have anything else more reliable to fall on. I wasted 2013 scoring and sound designing for 8 games that never released, and hardly ever actually paid me. I wish so hard I would have gotten into an IT program instead or something so that I could take hits like this without needing to eat ramen noodles for a month. Either that or plan on going to grad school and becoming a professor, or change to music education to work as a teacher in schools. You'll learn most of the same stuff, but these are also something to live on so that you can compose and still survive during dry spells.
Don't mean to be so harsh but this is you from the future talking, I wish my academic advisor would have expressed the need for further education for a reliable(?) and practical use of this degree.
But other than all of that, 2013 was pretty cool. I got featured by Destructoid and Kotaku like 4 times for various albums/videos, played guitar in a jazz trio once, been getting performances of my music in local concert halls and getting commissions from local performers, looking like 2014 might well be spent writing more for the real world and being more selective of what games I join.
151 Dec 30, 2013 10:26 am
Re: Chip In Cincinnatti, Ohio! (21 replies, posted in Collaborations)
here's some of my stuff: http://sleepytimejesse.bandcamp.com/
I'm primarily a freelance video game soundtrack guy (or at least, trying to be) and don't do much LSDJ, but I rock the SunVox and Fami, as far as trackers go. I have an album of chip stuff (famitracker) in the works with lots of collabs, if anyone's into that sort of thing
152 Dec 30, 2013 7:21 am
Re: Chip In Cincinnatti, Ohio! (21 replies, posted in Collaborations)
I'm all the way out here in Youngstown, OH. Close enough to mention, not close enough to really matter though.
153 Dec 28, 2013 4:13 am
Re: 8-Bit Music = Retro music? (66 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Is anamanabanana chiptoon when tthey use guitars???
how when guitar doesnt have memory even 8 bytes of it?
154 Dec 26, 2013 7:50 pm
Re: 8-Bit Music = Retro music? (66 replies, posted in General Discussion)
How many of these threads exist now
155 Dec 26, 2013 6:29 pm
Re: Anyone else experience this? How to get over it? (31 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Everyone on this forum but me is a spambot
156 Dec 24, 2013 7:48 am
Re: Anyone else experience this? How to get over it? (31 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Vaina Moinen wrote:
You could always try Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies:http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Ed1.htmlThey'll at least get you to think a little more sideways about whatever you're trying to overcome.
This is a really cool find, kudos for posting.
157 Dec 21, 2013 12:51 am
Re: Anyone else experience this? How to get over it? (31 replies, posted in General Discussion)
This happens to everyone at least now and then, I think. I tackle stuff like this by sitting at a piano or guitar and writing a whole piece like that so you don't get intimidated looking at an empty piece of paper or empty patterns in a tracker. This way the music is already written, now you just have to plug it into a program.
158 Dec 19, 2013 11:10 pm
Re: Theory Necessary for LSDJ? (20 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
danimal cannon wrote:
nickmaynard wrote:will learning more about music help you write music? yes it will.
Just as importantly, it will let you efficiently and effectively communicate with other musicians who also know music theory.
And also, inversely, writing music will help you learn about music. I go to a conservatory-style music school pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Music Composition and I will attest to the fact that often when stuff like chromatic mediants, secondary dominants, whatever, was introduced, I'd have this "Oh okay, THAT thing" moment because I've found the gist of it years ago while recording guitar in my bedroom or something.
"Music theory doesn't prescribe music; it describes music."
While taking an intro theory course early on in my communications degree my teacher told the class this, and I immediately switched my major.
159 Dec 18, 2013 6:33 pm
Re: Theory Necessary for LSDJ? (20 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I think the moniker "music theory" confuses people. Think of it less as a field of theory, and more as a language you want to speak. Then ask yourself if you need to learn English to write someone a love letter.
160 Dec 7, 2013 2:26 pm
Re: Would you accept a record deal offer? (28 replies, posted in General Discussion)
If the label did all the pre-release work and I could feasibly sustain myself financially from one album a year, maybe with touring, still have most if not all my artistic freedom, and still be allowed to pursue a career composing soundtracks, then yeah sure, I'd be all over it.