It\u2019s frustrating to see something in your mind without being able to express it properly.<\/p>\n
I tweeted that melodies are like the QTEs of music and now I\u2019m in trouble, trying to explain how or from what point of view.<\/p>\n
I thought about this analogy because melodies are traditionally what people listening to music, play with<\/em>. By playing with the music while listening to it I mean letting your mind decipher and enjoy it. Usually, melody is the first thing we get our brains on. People need to be able to connect to a song and for non musicians, non rhythmic people it happens with the melody (and yes, it\u2019s totally a social construct from Great Westernia; melody isn\u2019t that big in Africa for instance).<\/p>\n So, playing with the melody. You just have to follow a series of tones (hence the QTE reference). It\u2019s the easiest way to make that music playing your own<\/em>. It\u2019s like you are creating a path at the same time that the engine<\/em> -the body of the music, chords, rhythm, texture- creates this space for you.<\/p>\n If you can harmonize over music instead of following the lead, it means that you virtualize and play in a wider space<\/strong> than when singing a melody. Same way, if you can improvise notes in between a soft melody, it\u2019s more interesting and playful than exclusively follow even a complex series of notes. Same with rhythm that you have to feel and keep, a slightly more complex task than following a melody.<\/p>\n So I thought about melody as a series of QTE, kind of a cool thing to do on top of all the rest of the music\u2019s mechanics. I heard that it\u2019s a game in bars and it\u2019s called karaoke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n With music like jazz though, where there\u2019s virtually no melody, creating one is no QTE anymore.<\/p>\n I\u2019m interested in expression, freedom and creating a space for them. God I\u2019m a sucker for those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s frustrating to see something in your mind without being able to express it properly. I tweeted that melodies are like the QTEs of music and now I\u2019m in trouble, trying to explain how or from what point of view. I thought about this analogy because melodies are traditionally what people listening to music, play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}