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General Chatter / Re: Dealing with the music originality issue
« Last post by REDrangeDal on November 10, 2018, 17:14:59 »We create things basing on what we have already seen, so to make something unique, one needs to introduce themselves to a wide gamut of things, possibly a bit less popular. Okay that was obvious. Also, remember that uniqueness is somewhat relative, it depends on what your intended audience knows and what it craves. They may wish for a revival of something. It means uniqueness isn’t a goal in itself, or it is a goal, but it’s hard to determine uniqueness in what, specifically, is desired. So don’t worry too much.
In these days it's really hard to make a completely unique song, but not hard to make different songs with different samples. What I know for sure is that every artist has it's influences, so making a truly original song is not really that possible, because there are millions of songs in this world, or even more, and also there are many genres of music, like rock, dance, vaporware, hip-hop and others, as well as unknown genres like Danger Music, NintendoCore and others that I haven't heard of them, and everyone has it's own tastes, but up to some limit.
I personally think, today there’s a possibility to find an audience for almost everything, it maybe just takes a bit of luck? And even your first attempts could find a liking of many.
Also maybe there’s use to randomize your process to some measure. It would disturb your habits and could show you strange new stuff. Some people are fond of an Oblique strategies-like deck, personally I don’t know, but it seems it could equally apply to writing, drawing etc.; a Tarot deck may be funny to apply. Someone throws dice, someone asks friends or reads a random word from a book.
Making music with the help of a randomized harmonic rhythm or drum rhythm is something valuable when the artists need some inspiration or some musical direction, at last that's what I think of when I don't have a good idea, because every artist has it's musical roots, that were taken from more different songs or some sound sources, so taking some musical aspects from a random musical source and improving it with other ideas is what I call a original song, but it still might not be fully original, but at least that musical piece wasn't taken from already known rhythms, and it makes me feel better.
What I should note is that there are many softwares that were made for generating music with procedural algorithms and these can be very useful for both experimenting with the combination of sounds and making some new ideas, even if they are bizzare, and also I like and procedural generated rhythms and songs.
Thanks for your advices arseniiv, I appreciate your view regarding of making songs. Next time when I make songs I will not have worries, because each genre has its rules, but I think that rules should not matter that much, because everyone needs more musical variety.
