I Used Liszt to Make “Synthwave” - the results were hilarious.

I think List would be furious by now, slap me, what are you doing? I have this idea that I want to try, which is to take some music without France, he's a very famous classical composer, and create something very synthetic and funky with it. It's like a lot of the experiments on this channel. I have no idea how it will turn out yet, but my main goal is to create something that I can enjoy while I'm walking or at the gym. I'm a little late to the party. but these days I find myself listening to a lot of synth wave and I really like synths so this is something I just want to try out so let's get into the foreign theme that comes from his sonetto 104 Del petarka so the first thing we need to do es find a synth sound, let's look at metals, today we will use presets.

I'm in the mood to preset. I'm looking for something quite round and friendly, but punctual, something like that maybe fine, so I played it super straight and to a classical music standard. It is very unmusical but I think that for this context it is much better this way. I also changed the time signature a bit one two three four originally it's in thirds but I'm applying a 4-4 time signature and treating them as duals i.e. one two three four one. two three I think it's a little more interesting, so this is a really cool chord progression, it goes from E major, raised with a C or B sharp in the bass, D sharp minor, going to F sharp minor and then D major , D augmented flat. in the base of G major, I really love how they are spaced out, it's very satisfying and then B major and back to E major, so I never actually formally studied this piece, but I've always loved listening to it and the sonnet is very dramatic .

I long to perish and ask for help. I take charge and love another. It's too heavy for today. Now that we're in doll land, we're going to be fine, so I had to do a little research and I think I found a battery that. work that has the sounds I'm looking for sounds close to what I've been listening to to trust the process I'm really okay It sounds horrible but I have a vision for this I promise it sounds a little retro Okay, I need a minute So a while ago I made another experiment using Chopin and creating beads from the patterns of his piano music.

What I learned from that experiment is that you can create really cool patterns by omitting material from pre-existing passages, so that's what I'm going to do. What to do with this figure because it's a little liquid, so check this out. I'm going to turn the mute button on and off for this track and that will give us an idea of ​​what's possible. something I want to get at, so let's open this up, let's delete this randomly, it's not really a science, thanks foreigner, quite a bit of work, we did it, what we need to do is get rid of the petal.

I think we completely lost all the harmony, so I'm just going to do that as Echoes of What Was Before, then let's try to incorporate the melody, um, that's not going to stick, let's try something weirder, yeah, ya We'll see, we'll see. We'll see, we'll revisit this tomorrow. I'm sure as soon as I get to the computer tomorrow I'll think this is garbage, so I think this might be a great time to talk a little about

synthwave

originally. I was under the impression that

synthwave

refers to any music that uses synthesizers, but looking at this more closely, it is much more specific that synthwave is a recent type of electronic music that is an homage to the music of the 80s, especially the cinema and video game soundtracks of the time.

I listen to a wide range of sounds and beats, from fragments of disco and house music, ambient dubstep, retro video game music and experimental electronic music in general, for now I'm just a casual observer, so I'll list a few videos that I think explain this a lot better and like I said, lately I've been enjoying this genre of music on a lot of my walks while wearing these headphones made by Soundcore and you guessed it, they are the sponsors of this video and I. I'm actually very excited about this because I've been using their products long before featuring sponsors on this channel, so a few things to mention about their newest model, the Liberty 4.

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make

s the sound very crisp and clear, you can hear the details of the sound, whether it's low bass or bright issues, it also has head tracking technology that puts you in the heart of the movie or music, Giving you the feeling of being in a cinema or concert, you can be very specific about it by choosing between two spatial audio modes, music or video mode so that you can enjoy the best audio experience in different scenarios. I find them comfortable to wear and they flatter the music you listen to.

What I'm listening to and sometimes it's a nice escape from headphones while I'm monitoring my music, so I'm just going through the tracks from this last session and I'm changing my mind on a lot of these synths because I find that I hear differently. monitors vs headphones vs headphones and with these I can hear a lot of detail and it's actually very satisfying to listen to synths with these, but yeah, like I said, I can't decide and I'm just going through a bunch of these right now. I'm going to recap my second session after I've decided on some new synth options.

I mainly foc

used

on creating an intro and a melody. I played the arpeggios from the original list in a higher register for the introduction and for the melody. I tried several. of things with the original until I decided I would change and inject some humor into this and

make

it super simple, a little less elegant, but instead maybe it can be catchy for the rest of the session. I kept adding more sounds and additional sections until it was gone. In the end, it's been quite a few days, which is great because I have some distance since I wrote the piece, so let's listen while we take a walk abroad, okay, it was definitely interesting, very different from what I would normally write.

I'd say it's a slight success. I'd probably skip the track if I came across this in a playlist after about 20 seconds, which I think is really cool, so let me know what you think. Do you think the list would have been furious? Which are? Your thoughts on Synthwave and I'll see you in the next video. Many thanks to my patrons on Patreon, of course, and also a very special thank you to the special donors who helped me after this recent theft situation. It really helped me. I was able to get a new computer and replace many of the items, unfortunately of course the data I lost cannot be recovered but I learned a great lesson, always back up your files, thanks again and see you soon.