You're killing me. Synth being left thinking he couldn't stop the rock trolls but that Trollex would have been able to if he were there instead. He thinks he's an absolute failure. He'd be so ashamed to ever see Trollex again. You're causing me pain but I love it...
hehehe >:)c
you wanna see what happened when Trollex got back to the reef? (well i'm gonna show you anyway, there will be more on this event later)
When I'm making a "what songs a character would listen to" playlist rather than a "what songs make me think of the character" playlist, I start with two rules:
In order to prevent myself from making 200 playlists that all sound like my tastes instead of the characters' tastes, I start with the assumption that I'd probably dislike what the character likes and the character would hate what I like, and then only start making limited exceptions to this rule when I have a damn good reason to. (For instance: if I'm making a playlist for an emo kid, it can over lap with my tastes because I was an emo kid. But that does NOT give me the right to stick my symphonic metal preferences on them. Unless I've been given a damn good reason to think otherwise, they'd listen to My Chemical Romance, not Nightwish.)
In order to prevent myself from constructing muddy indistinct musical palates that, again, drift toward sounding like my tastes rather than the character's tastes, I assume that the character has very narrow tastes, and rigidly stay INSIDE that box, so that I can't fall into the trap of going "oh well this is sorrrrta like what they listen to, and it's such a good song that surely they would like it even though it's outside their typical tastes—" That's the devil talking.
There's no such thing as a universally "good song" and your personal "this is SO good that it TRANSCENDS genre and EVERYONE would like it" is somebody else's "this is so bland." What songs resonate with you is a function of how YOU'RE wired, NOT how the song's wired; the character you're making a playlist for is not wired like you. Stick to what you've chosen as their genre tastes or you're just gonna have yet another playlist that sounds like YOUR TASTES with 2 or 3 token songs that sorta fit the character's actual tastes. And if the playlist ends up sounding like your tastes instead of the character's, you might as well have made a "what songs make me think of the character" playlist.
SIMPLEXITY [yes i made this word up]: Simplexity for me is when art 🖼️ is executed in an individualistically complex manner but its final product is simple enough for any person to understand.
Sometimes I want my music to just hit you with a feeling no words. Other times I’m just talking my shiid cuz I know we all want to in our own ways.
But recently I’ve been trying to take a step back and reflect on what I have completed and released so far so I can decide ok where do I go from here. What do I want to achieve with each new track I make?
I am constantly asking myself questions…
Are these levels too high? Should I cut this part or that part? Can a beat have melodies and counter melodies and still go hard af? Is this too much compression? Are the dynamics building up to something? Etc.
At the end of it all though I find myself saying. Have I achieved Simplexity? Is this simple enough to digest while still expressing the little orchestrative lines I wish to include.
Its a process. It takes as long as it takes. I'm enjoying the grind tho. 💯
one thing thats fun about vocal synthesizers for the love-live-fan-minded fantasy-subunit-loving person is that i can make any combination of any of these cartoon characters i want. TO any song i want............ i am unstoppable