Topic: Original Music
I recently discovered that someone (or, more likely, some computer algorithm) on YouTube has made a claim that some sort of content in Pangaea is under an existing copyright. Of all the things on my channel to dispute, it wants to dispute my original song, Pangaea? Not the Rhythm Core Alpha version of the Teen Girl Squad theme? Not the Super Mario 64 Main Theme ragtime arrangement?
Admittedly, I may be making a mountain from an anthill. I'm relatively new to YouTube and it is entirely possible that mistakes of this kind are made all the time. If it was a computer algorithm equipped with machine learning AI, there's a rather good chance that somewhere in the high 80 per cents of videos are misidentified for some reason.
Then, there's the fact that Pangaea on YouTube is comprised of three fundamental parts: the visuals, the audio, and the title. If it was a real, actual person who made the claim, it could be because they are also a new-age composer with a song called Pangaea. Or, they could have a song called, I don't know... Ffarflugnahrben, or something, that they performed with the Fantom X's "Xtragalactic" voice.
Let's face it... there are only so many combinations of notes that one can squeeze out of the 12-note scale. Furthermore, there are only so many synthesisers and so many contrived instrument voices in the world. Even though we, as composers, like to think that we're composing entirely original music... really, there's no such thing. In all the years people have been writing in the five-line staff, a good 90% of all conventional note combinations have been used. Then, with so many schools of thought regarding new age music, the Experimental genre is using up all of the unconventional notations, as well.
And, of course, new age songs of this type are frequently given expansive, ethereal, or extraterrestrial names. "Pangaea" is one such word which is, has been, and will be used in that regard.
Regardless of the previous paragraph, I do believe that, to the best of my certain knowledge, the audio track in Pangaea -- all songs called that, written by all composers ever -- is a completely new, 100% original contrivance of my/our own brain(s). I did not set out, with malice aforethought, to infringe upon the copyrights of a fellow composer, as to do so would be considered less of art, more of cheating.
Of course, some AI somewhere may find it objectionable that I used Microsoft Word gradient effects for the visuals. I did cheat there.
Maybe I was just looking for something new to write about. Who knows?
