If you cannot hear that. You are deaf……

Source : I am a music industry consultant and engineer

I never said I don’t like this music or that I don’t prefer computer generated music, I only wish to open up the discussion about how much of today’s music is built with drum tracks, bass tracks, electronically tuned vocals etc.

I think the conversation about ‘what is music’ is a good one and perhaps it will be one that can be discussed without anyone being offended. I’m only asking that we consider the difference between say Tina Turner’s soulful singing with her crackerjack live band vs. the tune “Making Me Nervous” that Brad Sucks offers as a one man band on his myspace page.

So, he’s producer, writer, guitarist, bassist, vocalist, keyboardist..etc.

No lack of emotion here.

Brad Sucks is clearly passionate music made by a passionate machine, running a complex and diverse variety of machines. The only difference between this and any other mainstream music is that this guy is pretty much by himself.

Yet for me, the song of the human being includes the song created with the assistance of computers, of electrical instruments, of electronic devices, and even of remixed sound samples.

Brad Sucks’ music is not “computer-generated” in the sense of being programmed into software sequencers and then regurgitated. I enjoy a lot of music which is created in this way, and this music can be made with far greater feeling than some songs in tired pop,folk or rock conventions. Yet Brad makes a music which is very human, direct, and unassuming. He uses electronica and sound samples to make his music. Yet Brad’s workdeals with emotion and with human connection.

Nobody need be a “convert” to Brad’s music, or to the new music that is being made by dozens of netlabel artists who are exploring new ways to make music real. Yet it’s important to realize that those of us who enjoy these musics agree that music is made by humans, but reject the notion that music assisted by technology is somehow not “real” or “music”. I will go this much further–without meaning to question anyone else’s taste. The most real music I hear these days is made not with extensive use of electronic technology and computer assistance. Perhaps my tastes favor different modes of music than a fan of acoustic music–but I find in the music I favor emotions and humanity I no longer find in many forms of “safer” commercial music.

Brad Sucks’ music is mostly computer generated. Where is the feeling in this kind of “music?” Or is this music at all?

With more and more machines making “music” the missing link is EMOTION, the human connection and the human skill in making the music beautiful.