He knows deep down that the "art" he produces is garbage, so he calls it abstract and hopes people accept it as experimental outsider art so he won't have to go through the effort of actually getting good at something.
Yeah that kind of perfectly sums up my feelings on his music and his attitude towards it.
Digi-Faggot had cited The Mars Volta as a band of influence to him at one point in one of his Vlogs, and I always thought that was interesting. I'm personally a major fan of the Progressive Rock and Metal Genre, and despite the fact that all of his backing tracks that he bought were for Hip Hop (that i've listened to, i'll admit i've stopped listening to his recent stuff), I do feel like he was still trying to tap into the Progressive Genre of music in the same vein as The Mars Volta, largely due to his "seemingly" intentional reliance on Dissonance. The Guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez of El Paso fame is renowned for his expert use of Dissonance, and I personally think he is one of the greatest Guitarists of our time, surpassing even John Frusciante in my opinion.
But I describe Digi-Pedos execution as "seemingly", because it's very clear that he has no actual understanding of what Dissonance actually is. Dissonance in the context of music really just boils down to playing all of the notes
outside the main Scale. Notes inside the Scale will sound Harmonious, while notes outside the Scale will sound Dissonant, when contrasted with each other.
The classic example is Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, if you've never listened to The Rite of Spring I would urgently suggest you do, because it was a pivotal moment in music history. It was so famously shocking to the audience at the time that when it was first performed it
literally caused a riot.
The Rite of Spring was the first implementation of such extreme levels of Dissonance. More often it would be used in small minor instances; usually in a way that's more familiar to the layman as the odd Sharp or Minor thrown in throughout various phrases to add some tension to an otherwise Harmonious piece.
The Rite of Spring was different, because it just FUCKING HAMMERED the shit out of Dissonance practically throughout the entire piece. But that's the key point, even the original gangster of Dissonance; The Rite of Spring, still used some Harmony. This is because
people need Contrast. Just as man cannot tell the good times without the bad, so too can we not tell Dissonance without Harmony. It would be like handing someone a piece of paper with only the color Black on it. You need some White sprinkled in there to make it interesting.
Omar Rodriguez Lopez of El Paso fame understands this perfectly as well. Looking at the track L'Via L'Viaquez we can see Omar starting the first solo off with some Harmony:
And once the stage has been set, and we as the listern have a frame of reference, he leads us into the second solo, which is pure Dissonance:
And now let's compare that to Digi-Troons track "Off My [Semen] Drip":
It's pure Dissonance all of the way through. I actually tried to point this out to him, and I think he removed my comment.
You need that Contrast. And especially as an unproven and "upcoming" artist, you need that Contrast of Harmony first and foremost to prove that you have Competence, and this is speaking to your point BIG_BRAD; that you need to be able to prove to the audience that you understand the basics (in this case Scales), that you understand things technically, before you go off breaking rules, because if you don't you just look like a retard, and it's even worse when you try to pass if off like it's intentional, because you're literally insulting the intelligence of the listener when you do it.
Personally, I think as an Artist one of the most important goals you should be striving towards first is understanding what Cliches are, because the only way to properly avoid a Cliche is to understand what it is. And even better, once you understand the Cliche, you can use it to your advantage, because Cliches are Cliches for a reason: it's because they work when used correctly.
Going back to a point I made in my previous post; with Art as a window or mirror into the soul, Digi-Dunce's music is not only insulting to the listener on an Intellectual level, but on a Characteristic level as well, because he plays it off as intentional. If he were honest in who he was self-conceptually, you could find something of worth in what he's creating.
Henry Darger (who if I remember right worked as a Dishwasher his entire life) is a great example of an outsider with no technical knowledge who created incredible and haunting works within his limitations; relying largely on tracing:
If you don't have the skills technically you can always fall back on characteristic honesty, and what you create will personally resonate with someone, and your lack of technical skills will suddenly become an asset that will give strength to your voice.
But Digi-ChildFapper will never do that, he will likely continue to offer you a paper filled in with Black and tell you it's genius, insulting not only yourself, but the natural balance and flow of nature and the universe at large.
"I'm an artist", he says, while merely commenting on other's art.
"I'm a musician", he says, while singing entirely out of scale, using other people's music.
"I draw", he says, while worthlessly scribbling nothing onto paper.
"I'm a girl", he says, while stroking his 30 year old chapped and bleeding dick.
Conrad is hubris incarnate.
