As the date grows nearer where our tragedy piece is due, I'm leaning more away from making my musical representation of tragedy as a guitar piece, towards making an electronic, progressive house or trance track. I feel like certain progressive house riffs and and most trance riffs carry lots of emotion, especially comparison to guitar riffs. I'm not saying I don't believe one can create tragic music with a guitar, I just believe the certain styles of electronic music can carry more poignant sounds. A progressive house artist whose style I will be attempting to emulate to some extent is 'Deadmau5'.
This is a track by deadmau5 that is a good representation of what I am attempting to create: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZX8Y49xMY
I hope to be able to create a piece that fluidly integrates both major and minor riffs, and some that hover somewhere inbetween. Through the fluctuation in major and minor sounds I hope to create music that aptly represents and can be interpreted as tragic. I believe progressive house more than trance carries the minor emotions associated with tragedy, as trance tends to be more uplifting or energetic, although both are usually emotionally powerful.
That music piece is creepy.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually "writing" a song for my tragedy piece, but the lyrics are the part I'm focusing on to make a tragedy. What a cool idea to try and represent tragedy through musical notes.
I think the more open, wide notes sound like tragedies; I agree that electric guitar can create incredibly sad musical pieces. I'm interested to hear how you represent the idea of tragedy through a song.