In re:member, Arnalds uses short call and response phrases in the composition. Call and response phrases mimic human interaction, and thus such composition styles appear frequently in music all over the world.
– Nick Andreev
Nils Frahm – A Place
Sevish – Midnight Cascade
In Midnight Cascade, Sevish employs just intonation in tuning their instruments.
A just intonation tuning system is any tuning system that attempts to tune musical intervals as whole-number ratios. Such whole number ratios appear naturally in almost all sounds as the harmonic series, and when sounded, no beating is heard. That being said, attempting to create rigid tuning systems using the rules of the harmonic series doesn’t work as one would first expect, as music commonly requires more notes than just one harmonic series can provide. As such, just intonation tuning systems frequently sound just as, if not more, out of tune than standard twelve-tone equal temperament. However, if one is using a scale-free instrument like a trombone, voice, or any instrument of the violin family, they would naturally be inclined to play in what is called adaptive just intonation, which is basically what all just intonation tuning systems attempt to emulate.
– Nick Andreev
Quick Start in Music Theory!
Okay writing music is annoying sometimes and hard. I started out writing music not really understanding much about how to make songs interesting and wrote the exact same type of song for a while. Eventually it hit me that a little bit of music theory never hurt anyone. This video I think has a few key things that can be helpful when not knowing starting in theory!
And if you don’t feel like theory theory and want to just learn something a bit more digestible, learn a tiny bit of keyboard! If you can figure out middle C on a piano those little piano rolls in your DAWs will seem a little easier!
When making music on a laptop for the first time everything feels super foreign and I think videos like this one will help it make a little bit more familiar!