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Alex Quintana
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Mon, 31 Jan 2000 19:39:53 -0500 (EST)
Subject:
(idm) Re: "Intelligent music"
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William Samuels wrote:
quoted 4 lines When you describe music as intelligent "this" or "that" it doesn'>When you describe music as intelligent "this" or "that" it doesn't really >describe any quality or characteristic of the music. It just shows you >either lack the vocabulary or the lack of knowledge about music to truly >describe it.
Sometimes the 'intelligent' adjective is used to describe music with a quality of "ambient" music. Try listening to intelligent jungle, "intelligent jungle." etc.. You will find a lot of them have light soundscapes of flowing synthpads and melodies. The house variant is "Chill House" and although being more jazz oriented than ambient (in all what i've heard) it still is basically similar.. There's some intelligent jungle which is very jazz oriented.. Either way, chill house rules :)
quoted 2 lines I have heard Ltj Bukem/Good Looking Records described on this list as>I have heard Ltj Bukem/Good Looking Records described on this list as >"intelligent" jungle. Why?
quoted 3 lines Because you like it? It's just a little prettier and atmospheric. It's>Because you like it? It's just a little prettier and atmospheric. It's >not technically superior or harder to make. You could argue that it's >less dancefloor oriented...but I think that's a weak argument.
I don't think LTJ Bukem is technically superior to anything :) What I've heard from GLR/LTJ Bukem is not less dancefloor oriented, or it wouldn't have a bunch of loops and strong breaks, but it does have an ambientish/light quality to it. I personally prefer stuff like Omni Trio's Byte Size Life LP and GLR stuff to Aphrodite and Panacea stuff anyday :) -- Hillie "System administrators are demigods who know how to run computers in ways that mere mortals can only imagine." -- Paul E. Hoffman Atonal Audio Research Labs [www.|ftp.|irc.]atonal.org[:80|:21|:6667] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org