Hi folks, Steven here. So, I wanted to talk about sort of a "gulf" that I've perceived
in the way music is covered between sort of the "surface level" stuff and then
sort of the the more professional stuff there seems to be somewhat of a hole in the
middle-at least to me. In any event, what made me think about this was earlier
today I was watching a YouTube video called "The Martyr Who Saved Speedrunning"-
it is fairly appropriate most of the bad words are kind of bleeped out,
but there are a few things in there. But I will put a card in that so you can
take a look if you're interested, but basically what it's about is
speedrunning and sort of...someone about a year ago posted a rant/editorial on
YouTube talking about some some deficiencies he had observed in the
speedrunning community, and felt that there was sort of a lack of content or
outreach from speedrunners to their audience, and this was sort of preventing
there from being a link, preventing folks from getting into it, and stuff like that.
And the author of this video sort of went on to say that since then-perhaps
related perhaps not-there's been an uptick in the amount of sort of content
-that isn't just the straight speedrun itself-that sort of tries to bridge that
gap between the audience for these types of runs and sort of how those things are
made and sort of explain that. One of these that I've been following for a
while is Summoning Salt-he does a lot of "history of speedrunning records" for
various games-he did a Pokemon one not too long ago-but thinking about that
video as I was watching it, I sort of realized, "you know, I think we might
have a similar problem with music." There is a lot of "surface level" coverage and
you know, I don't want be too harsh on it, but there's always that stuff
about "what's this musician wearing" or you know "how did this musician get in an arguement
human with this other one", and less so kind of about the actual content talking
about it you know structurally or whatever, and there's some deeper
knowledge out there if you want to go look for it,
but it seems to be aimed at people who are very deep into music. Either they
produce it or they've taken lessons or have a music theory background and not
so much at folks who are want to learn more, but maybe don't have a full music
vocabulary, and if you compare it to gaming you know if you look on YouTube
you're gonna find a zillion videos talking about the latest video game
analyzing it in great detail, from both large and small creators, and at least
in the times I've searched for it I haven't found as much on music, and in particular
some of the music that I listen to. Which tends to be much more
soundtrack focused, and of course you may know that we do this discussion series
with Anne from Pikapi Podcast. We talk about the ending songs of the various
Pokemon movies, comparing Japanese to English, and you know both of us do have
some definite [musical] experience. My parents are current or former orchestra teachers, I
took cello lessons and some choir stuff growing up and have been listening to
music ever since, and she has somewhat of a theater background. I think she has an
arts degree and has done at least some local stuff, but I do try to design
those discussions in such a way that you don't need to have a big background in
music or music theory or any of that, and I would like to take this time to sort
of ask how we're doing in that regard and make sure that it's meeting [your] needs or
if there's things we can improve on. Now in addition to that, I did kind of want
to mention I have found one show that does cover soundtracks. It is
appropriately enough called "The Soundtrack Show" it's a podcast from "how
stuff works", and they're relatively new. but they sort of cover the gamut.
They have episodes on movies, they do video games. they just recently did an episode
on Super Mario Bros., and other stuff like that. So I think that's heading in
the right direction, but so, [what] I'd like to know from you is do you think that I'm
right about this and there is sort of a dearth in between the sort of "surface
level" and the professional level, and that there should be more in there,
and if so what, and is there any content you'd like to see here from me or from the music
community at large. So if you have any opinions on any of that, go ahead [and] give us
a comment-we always love that. Alright folks, thanks.
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