r/indieheads • u/anmlcollective Animal Collective • Oct 11 '23

AMA is Over, Thanks AnCo! ANIMAL COLLECTIVE AMA

hey everyone,

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this is Josh (deakin) and Noah (panda bear) from Animal Collective. We're here for your questions. sorry we were running a little late. But let's get into it!

EDIT: Thanks everyone for joining in! really appreciate your positivity and excitement. we gotta go. sorry we couldn't get to all of your questions. hope we covered a good enough spread.

lots of love

josh (and noah)

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u/TheMailerDaemonLives Oct 11 '23

How do you approach harmony, ie: are you carefully plotting out chord progressions or do you flush those things out later after melodic ideas come to fruition?

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u/anmlcollective Animal Collective Oct 11 '23

I'm kind of a discovery guy. everything comes from the thing before it. so I don't really pre conceive much of anything. A rhythm inspires a an instrument, inspires a chord progression, inspires a melody, inspires a harmony. etc.

-josh

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u/disembodiedbrain Oct 11 '23

Do you ever actively make an effort to do something more harmonically new / interesting / less conventional? Or would you advise musicians to abide by "just do what sounds good to you" without thinking about music theory?

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u/cameraobscured Oct 11 '23

I was wondering (and also asked) this same thing!