Negative harmony in the modern music industry

[Shancy]

Hi guys, I'm new here and I'm currently studying music production in uni, currently doing a dissertation on negative harmony. I want feedback from the songwriting community here to see if anyone actually thinks that negative harmony is a viable songwriting/composing tool? I keep hearing about it more and more and am genuinely curious as to how relevant it actually is right now. Is it growing in popularity? Has anyone here actually used it in their own compositions, or even understand it for that matter?

 

If any songwriters\composers could find the time to hopefully help me out by answering a 10 min. survey it would really help me out a lot. You don't need to even know about negative harmony, it would still help! Cheers!

 

https://form.jotform.com/230898362290362

 

[MikeRobinson]

Welcome, and good luck on your dissertation! 

 

However ... "what the (!) is ... 'negative harmony?'"

 

Please give us a nice summary paragraph – or two or three or six – which carefully presents to the rest of us what you have spent so many months of your life focusing upon.  First, tell us what the subject-matter is.  Then, "in layman's terms," introduce your thesis.  Next, tell us exactly what input you are looking for.  Finally, present your survey.

 

Only then(!) can you reasonably expect your "survey results" to be meaningful and therefore useful to you.  You can't simply "throw a baseball to us" and expect us to ... well, anything at all, except to say "ouch!"