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2026-05-05 23:11 UTC

@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza a similar but related concept that i love to use a lot is juxtaposition of two very different energies summed together. stacking against each other very smooth synths and very harsh drums is one of the most obvious and easy ones (a good example is arovane's fard ent:r), but anything that provides contrast and an interplay of energies really tends to make my ears perk up. the tension between the two or more elements is what makes the sum more interesting.

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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza 2026-05-06 01:54

@zweikreise@ravenation.club Yes, I like this too! Nicely put by you. I think it’s a tension zone of disparate elements collaging together that we like?; delicate but tough, tight but loose, deep, dense, but not overworked, extreme sounding but not harsh on our ears. A holding of the space between seemingly impossible sonic opposites. It seems beneficial to do it with pairing quite different sources/approaches too (generative, live playing, step-recorded, etc.) Doubling up a relatively untouched-organic with the synthetic - with bridges between them. In further connection with what you said, I love it when sounds have a rubbery, fast transient attack, and flare out via other sounds that are opposingly soft in all respects - with the stereo spectrum on each treated very differently but the whole coming together like a single liquidity scrunch, lol. Building your parts from sets of opposites. It may seem like a strange example, but a friend who is now an orchestral arranger (from a background completely opposite to that interestingly) just told me how Ravel innovated orchestral by having pizz and woodwind play the same part; the pizz supplied this attack, and then the oboe the “tail” (to use modern vehicular haha!)

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