Tantacrul
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Please Choose My Next Video
🕑 Added 2021-05-16 11:50:03 +0000 UTCHey everyone. Below are a bunch of videos I'm planning at the moment. They're all going to happen... but I'm having trouble figuring out which I should focus on right now. Please help! Read below for a synopsis of each video and then vote on the one you want to see. Comments would be very welcome too!
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A video about elitism in music: I'd spend 50% of the video making fun of people who really are elitist, discussing how it is a problem... but not in the way most people think (this is not going to be a video about 'gatekeeping'. It will be much more about identity). The other 50% will be spent advocating for the importance of specialisations and deep knowledge. There is nothing wrong with being an expert in something.
A video about the problem with the concept of newness: this video would look at the idea of 'new' music from multiple angles. Apart from the obvious question 'how can something be 'New'?', I want to talk about how newness informs so many decisions that musicians make: a sense that they need to address contemporary topics; incorporating new instruments and techniques, etc. Sometimes these decisions are great. Sometimes silly. In particular, I also want to talk about the world of tech, which is obsessed with newness and fetishises it constantly.
Interesting links between design and music: I have spent years taking note of various ways that design theories and practices have close correlations with musical composition. I could make about 5 videos about this but I thought I'd start with something like "7 fundamental links between design and music'.
Politics and music: A look at how music is generally abused in politics - especially campaigns. I'd tease out common tropes and probably write some political music of my own too. A little bit in the vein of Corporate Music and Reality TV tropes.
In defence of music notation: This video would be about the myriad of different criticisms that have been thrown at notation and music theory over the last 20 or 30 years. In particular, I want to take aim at how technologists keep promising to create systems that will 'liberate' us from the need to study notation. Notation has persisted for centuries for a reason.
MIDI packs (Unison especially): We've all seen the adverts. They are unbearable. The product is close to being a scam. They insufferably misinform people about how to write music. I want to aim a bazooka at Unison. Even their logo is rubbish...
Comments
For all the flak standard notation gets from its detractors, I've yet to see a better alternative for most of western music. The one that has managed to keep up with it are tabs, and only then for specific instruments. With that being said, music and design gets my vote, I'm super curious to see how you'd develop that.
Well, you could do all of these videos and use the ratings to choose the order. ;-)
