Poll: Does your music dance in your body?

bachus

Do you feel your music as implicit/explicit motion/force within your physical body?

dewdrop_world · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:50 am Post subject:

Basically always (not just my music, either... pretty much everything I listen to).

If my music doesn't get into my bones that way, then I know I have to throw that piece out.

James

kkissinger · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:18 am Post subject:

If the music is rhythmic, then I certainly "feel" it, and may even want to move with the music. If the music is slow, meditative, or ambient then it tends to be a relaxing and/or cerebral experience for me.

mosc · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:56 am Post subject:

Yup...

bbinkovitz · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject:

it depends. i think my method of creating music is very intuitive, yet somehow the final results are usually rather intellectual in a weird way. maybe i just have intellectual emotions or something nonsensical like that.

i have friends whose music makes me cry on a regular basis though, and i have cried at things i find beautiful/poignant since i started sobbing the first time i heard canon in d when i was 5. Embarassed

so i suspect that i'm still too afraid of conventionality to go ahead and pursue beauty for its own sake. maybe i'm too hung up on being "original"?

also i try to use music as communication, in a way. words are almost always important to my music, at least abstractly. the stuff on my myspace is like that. (myspace.com/skippyvodka)

i have made some pieces that are exceptions to the abovementioned, but the only one that comes to mind right now is one i wrote specifically dedicated to someone else, using a demo of renoise that i had just downloaded that day, never having used any kind of sequencer before.

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rbedgar · Joined: Dec 20, 2005 Posts: 110 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Sometimes I compose music that I feel immediately.

Sometimes I write or compose music that I don't feel immediately. I may continue to modify it as I listen and learn it, and refine the form to bring out what it has to offer.

There may be a feeling from a rhythm, but might also be a sensation from a texture of a sound.

kijjaz · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject:

Sometimes yes, sometimes not..
I guess it's just how much I let the groove flows in..
Sometimes A very rubato or ambiency sound/music can be very groovie to me
(no clear beats)
But it may be because I'm interested in that specific sound/music.

I'm thinking a lot about this issue.
I guess it involves the word "groove"..
And many times, grooves doesn't come in repeating phrases or bars, I can feel.
But can't explain lolol.

seraph · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:01 pm Post subject:

not always my music dances (in my body) but certainly it vibrates Exclamation

DrJustice · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject:

"I play my body electric"

Yeah... I'm not much of an outwards dancer, more inwards, but I do feel electric when I get going.

DJ
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bachus · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:23 am Post subject:

The body electric sing "I"

I think, for me, an important aspect of music is an unambiguous sense of mind/body unity. I.e. that's one of the things I want to get out of the music I listen to, at least most of the time, and certainly whenever I write. Hence music that does not get into my body is generally of little interest.

bachus · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:35 am Post subject:

bbinkovitz · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject:

bachus · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:04 am Post subject:

Doni · Joined: Jul 11, 2007 Posts: 64 Location: Canada

I do feel it, specifically in my pelvis http://electro-music.com/forum/images/icons/icon10.gif
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Doni · Joined: Jul 11, 2007 Posts: 64 Location: Canada

booo my smily didnt work..... whimper...

opg · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:07 am Post subject:

I don't dance. I tried really hard to "get into it" at a Gameboy concert (Bitshifter really did rock!), but it's mostly head-nodding that I do ("Like I'm saying YES to every beat!" - Homer Simpson).

My wife asked me what I imagined when I listen to a song, and I told her that I imagined how it would be arranged in Fruity Loops. She said, "How sad." Sad

Doni · Joined: Jul 11, 2007 Posts: 64 Location: Canada

haha isn't that the truth

I always think of how a song was produced when I hear it.. I always think of what could have been done better (if anything)

and our women shall always consider us losers... boooooooooo

renevanderwouden · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject:

yes, and it makes me mad sometimes. It's the rhtymn that drives me.

Kassen · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject:

Warning; opinions ahead!

1) If she thinks you're a "loser " she's not "yours".

2) if you can't dance to it (aren't moved by it?) you don't understand it. That's not to say you have to; it sufices to be able to.

bachus · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject:

seraph · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:05 am Post subject:

Kassen · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:34 am Post subject:

Antimon · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:32 am Post subject:

bachus · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject:

Kassen · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:21 am Post subject:

I found that my dancing to certain genres improved a lot after I tried writing that kind of music, as well as the reverse.

Also; would you buy a car by a non-driver? Would you get a video game made by someone who never plays those?

I don't think this is limited to just "music with beats", ask any modern ballet dancer. Heck; whole musical cultures revolve around dancing to solo guitar or solo violin (midletereanian gypsi music comes to mind, for example).