venetian snares
wawawa
terminal 11
aphex twin
bogdan raczynski
ocean scenes music (my friend)
hrvatski
ethereal_cereal
whining isolation
igorrr
nine inch nails
meshuggah
squarepusher
boards of canada
etiosynthesis
cyriak
nero's day at disneyland / lauren bousfield
autechre
iglooghost
dysphemic
aaron spectre
noisetorture
crayz
secondhandvanity
µ-ziq
speed dealer moms
clown core
animals as leaders
renoise
logic pro
breaks
samples
samples of everyday objects
my own voice
metric modulation
blast beats because they go hard
polyrhythms my favorite
weird time signatures (7/4, 5/4, 9/4, etc.)
strings (mainly from logic pro but whatever)
scary sounds oOoOoOoOoOo
me i guess i ran out of ideas
to be completely honest, its a weird process
i normally just take stuff that spark my brain
like anything from hitting plates to whacking a metal ladder
anything that fires up my brain like "ooh i should make a beat out of that" i just run with it
some of the stuff i create out of it doesnt sound as good as i thought so i scrap the idea
but just putting really anything through effects and sound manipulation can sound cool
there are also just audio files i have sitting in my laptop
one of the folders i have always set in renoise is my downloads
when im not working on music im a very online person most of the time
so there is always at least one thing in my computer that i realize "hey i should use this"
and something i really like doing is taking something like drums and repurposing it completely
like warp drums so far beyond its starting point by stripping it down of all meaning
and find something in there that can be used melodically
or even the smallest sound that is a astronomically small fraction of what it used to be
taking the sound back to its purest form
a small single wave, tiny, basic, the simplest form of sound
and creating something new
like taking a human cell and creating a new being out of what used to be someone like you and me
sound is very complex and very simple at the same time
and i take that complexity and rip it apart until i have the simplest form it can be
and making something that is completely different
digital manipulation is the reason why every soundwave imaginable to the human ear can be created
i find that very beautiful
as said by boards of canada: "music is math".
the notes that represent pitch and chords and melodies can be numbers
the frets on a guitar are just carefully placed fractions
creating notes that people recognize as music
i find odd time very satisfying compared to 4/4
i sometimes like 4/4 but not when its just 4/4
because to me, 4/4 is basic and simple
i dont like simple when it comes to music
i am very fascinated with odd-time and mathematical parts of music
because as a kid i used to love math more than anything (i hate it now but still)
math to me is weird yet wonderful, and very intriguing to me especially in music
i use a lot of math in my own works because of this
i dont know the best words so this could be sounding weird but still
i love putting rhythms that sound like they are only there to mess with your brain but
having deeper meaning behind all of them
like in the track burning down leafblowers (might be released already) i used metric modulation a lot
it went from 9/4 to 6/4 to 4/4 by using metric modulation which i found very...cool? idk
but yeah
it was 9/4 at 240 bpm to 6/4 320 bpm to 4/4 213.333 bpm
and to pull it off i had to use math to get every subdivision to fit the beat in renoise
it was 8 lines per beat then 6 then 9
it took a bit to figure it out but i eventually did
and it felt very satisfying to hear the beat switch
because when you have one simple beat like 4/4 to me it can sound plain and boring
but when you use things like polyrhythms and metric modulation
in my head it creates this complex web of every possibility
sort of like adding a new dimension to the music
polyrhythms do sort of the same
i like the feeling when my head plays two beats at once that creates even further subdivisions
it can open up new things to create, new ideas, new thoughts
odd-time also creates this sort of feel that make it feel interesting and uneven
it can sound different for every measure and i like them for that a lot
for me it opens up a lot of further ways i can divide it into weirder beats
yeah
tl;dr: i like mathematics in music because it opens up further possibilities to make new things and i love it for that