The Dissonance of Electronic Music

The emotional quality of music and a musical experience is oftentimes determined by the relationship between multiple pitches, especially when they happen at the same time. If you just stick to a major and minor and everything is perfectly tempered, no matter how hard you push your electronic music, it will still in some way sound like classical music. And so I don't want to learn the basic rules of harmony if you're pursuing this, but you want to learn them so you can break them like any proper system. We wanted to play with people that were even accidentally breaking rules because now we're able to start to get into a chartreuse and magenta and different kinds of, you know, color grad

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