Post a response to this discussion thread
There's a lot more out there than just the 'talented kids making dance music...' For about two years now, I've been a talented kid writing industrial/ gothic music. So I feel I've got a fewcounter points to offer.
As far as being easier to write than 'real music' I have to object. To make a GOOD song, then you're going to have to compose it. The only real shortcut created by electronic media is that you don't really have to play most of it back. However, for my band's live act (neutronstar), we've got two guitarists, a bassist, and a guy who (once it's construction is completed) will play a keyboard rigged to do lighting effects. I, the composer, also sing. Pressing play on the DAT is easy. However, there's still a definite group proformance, and it's much preferable to the effort one would need to mix an average of 24 music tracks in real time. Conversely, ninety percent of the other bands in my area are just modelled after nirvana, bush, and match-box twenty.
Any four people can get together and write out a song, but considerably fewer are willing to stare at a screen for eight hours straight stringing out the rudiments that might be a song after another eight hours.
-melf
(cheap plug: neutronstar - http://members.tripod.com/~melfelf1)
Post a response to this discussion thread