Wednesday, November 6, 2019

i think it's interesting that this advertised as being "for meditation", because it kind of pushes the point - as a piece of music, it's not very exciting. oddly, perhaps it's not intended to be exciting.

there's reasons why i may find the premise of mixing electronic music with lead guitar work to be interesting; that is, after all, what i do, myself. but, this is just exceedingly dry on both levels. as a guitarist, his style is just dead - no passion, no emotion in the playing. and, as an electronic composer, he's just running off ableton templates; there's not a lot of thought put into this, in either direction.

but, if it simultaneously fails on an intellectual level and on a corporeal level, perhaps it succeeds on the level of being a kind of elevator music, for exactly the reason it fails at being compelling electronic music or compelling guitar music. but, if that's the case, perhaps you want to listen to it alone when you're reading, or perhaps as a sleep aid, rather than go out and see it performed live.

i would find it to be terribly boring in a live setting, myself.

https://tetramusicproject.bandcamp.com/album/resolution