At 03:38 PM 2/18/96 -0800, you wrote:
quoted 2 lines (I hate to draw this thread out, which I'm sure is REALLY interesting to our>(I hate to draw this thread out, which I'm sure is REALLY interesting to our
> IDM readership in, say, Finland (-: But ... )
Are you kidding me? Next time I go to LA I'll know where to go better than a
local :)
quoted 3 lines That made it a *rave* in my eyes, which just happened to be thrown in a more>That made it a *rave* in my eyes, which just happened to be thrown in a more
>conventional venue than most. I saw plenty of X'd-out ravers (OK, so maybe
>they weren't 16 and they didn't all have pacifiers (-: ) at that event, btw.
"x'd out ravers are people too": Think I'll put it in my .sig :)
ObIDM:
regarding the live performance/playing-of-DATs thread:
It's obvious that a lot of IDM, being composed and performed via electronic
equipment, cannot really played live the way "old" music was. I don't think
this is a limitation in IDM artists, it just that they're, well, different
kinds of musicians. However, "live" IDM can be *truly* enhanced in other
ways that are not really synergistic with "old" music (eg, a good light show
or video or freaky laser show or whatever goes a lot better with IDM than
with rock music.) I think we should stop asking IDM artists to behave like
"old" musicians (thus playing 'live') and start asking that they apply their
innovation not only to their music but to their way of performing in public,
too. (Think J.M. Jarresque!)
A.
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