Chowderhawk.com blog

Hey all.

Just a quick note here, I’ve updated the site a bit. Made it a bit smaller as for some reason it was really, really large. Might even be a graphic redesign in the near future…

Enjoy,
Ross

Hello all, this is one of those rant things that people type out, enjoy.

I was sharing some music with a friend and I linked him to this video:

111108 from blindoldfreak on Vimeo.
www.blindoldfreak.com

I had my usual thoughts of ‘He’s not gonna like this’, ‘It’s not his thing’, ‘In before shitstorm’ and so on. And so we discussed what we thought about it and we eventually got onto the topic of “real instruments” vs instruments like the one above (which is the Buchla 200e series). Specifically we were arguing about that vs the guitar. My friend took the opinion that the above instrument is a waste and I took the opinion that it’s innovation and implied that it’s more versatile than the guitar. Eventually the conversation ended with this statement from my friend:

All the notees seemingly pleaseing to the ear have been found and the ones that are still out there are either squealing noises that make the other people in the room playing real instruments to shutt up or fuck up synth masses that no one has used before because it sounds like shit.

I was shocked, mouth open, jaw dopped, speachless. How could someone actually think that? Had that been the view of everyone back in the 1800s we’d be nowhere musically. So, how does this link to the future of music? Well, think of it this way. If people are content with the music that is made now and they don’t innovate and experiment, then progress is not made. Normally that would change as newer generations have different ideas about what music is. As the 80s gave way to the 90s, and the 90s gave way to the 2000s, progress comes roughly every 10 years. But, and I’m sure there are people like my friend in every musical era, what if everyone believed that? As I said before, no change would come. What scares me even more is that my friend is the same age as me, he’s not some 60 year old who dispises new music and prefers the music of the 50s  and 60s, this is a 15 year old who is the future of music. I surely hope that not everyone my age believes that, as if the future of music doesn’t believe there should be change, there will be no change.

Though I have some faith that people aren’t all like my friend above and that change will come. Hopefully to something like the video above. If that’s the future of music, bring on the future.

Until next time,
Ross

Hey there, you devoted readers who obviously frequent my site daily.

As I found out while going through my site in a windowed browser I found a startling problem. That problem being that there aren’t any working scrollbars for the site. Anyways, I figured out how to fix it and I did just that.

In other news:
I’m unsure if I’m gonna use this blog for rants and such, doesn’t seem to be getting much traffic so I think I will. Think of it as a Ramblings of Chowderhawk v2.0 (Eat your heart out Hammertime).

Have fun,
Ross

Hey all.

Today a large amount of the site was updated. This blog was added and the galleries page was made a bit neater. There probably won’t be many major site updates for a while, just updating content and tweaking things.

I’m toying with the idea of setting up a forum but it doesn’t look likly at the moment.