Whose the music for?

I have a high school friend who Is one of the more talented and intelligent people I know. He lives down in Chicago and has a band called the Heaven 70's. It is a club dance pop group. He is one of two guitar players and is a nut about 80's pop and dance music. He loved swing and Rockabilly in High School. He is the one that loves black and punk jewelry.

His other band mate wrote a program has really got me thinking. It is called Pitch Formula. The whole Idea behind it is that he wrote a program to analyze thousands of review by professionals critics. the program is very sophisticated and analyzed what the critics loved about the music that was on the market. He then wrote music to corresponds with what the masses liked. The funny thing is... I like the songs.

So is he cheating? Is it not fair to analyze the masses in such a way to put out music that they will like which eventually will sell mass amounts of albums and have it all because some program says this is what to write? What if this happened in worship? Do worship leaders write radio hits or do they write music only for God? Do we buy music from worship leader we like and it is all a coincidence that many of them spend thousands on a  producer and studio to make their music better. Better for who?

This is a very interesting thing... Here is my take. I think that good producers and hit-makers instinctively know what people like. I think that somewhere in their minds they go... this beet works... this verse rocks... people will get into this... people will buy this... change this and add that and bam! They do it and then the program just finds the people who are good at it.

with us as a people... we could look at the most Could this be done to worship music? What if we analyzed the psalms and found what phrases resonated preached about psalms... and then pull the words and text out and then through it into a sweet mix of music and bam... Worship hit... I bet you would love it.

I think this begs a question as to what about us as the masses tickles our ear? Are there tones and notes that more people like than others. is there something inside that rattles when we hear these tones? I Say Yes. Our God is a God who understands symphonic resonance. He was the first to make noise and that noise was apart in some way of our creation. Look at the old testament and notice the power of worship in the temple and in military exploits. Music has power and certain music hits us all in powerful ways. Could this computer program help us pull out what that is? Probably. Here is a response by the creator...

1. Do you honestly think that writing music using this method can get you good reviews?

   No, I'm not convinced that this process (or any process) is a surefire way to make music that Pitchfork critics (or any critics) actually like. All that's provided by my project is a set of compositional guidelines tied to past Pitchfork reviews. You can make a lot of different-sounding music using those same guidelines depending on how you apply them to your music, but will all of it be good? No, of course it won't.

   There's no such thing as “perfect” pop music, and you couldn't generate it using a computer if there were. Music is a very human thing, and that's what makes it great.

Something to think about! I love music and look forward to what else comes... I think that we can distort it but ultimately music is from the heart of man to God... most music even secular is worship... it is either worship of a thing, person or GOD!

Comments

[McCool]

these thoughts make me think about the book Tipping Point. Great read.

Like your new blog look, too.

[Phillip Santillan]

great post. Another good book these thoughts remind me of is the last half of "Made to Stick"