On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Aaron Michelson wrote:
quoted 3 lines Do you really think that> Do you really think that
> people who don't dance don't appreciate the music? I think that's a
> profoundly absurd question. It does however raise an interesting issue.
There's some music that can be appreciated without dancing,
and some that's hard to. I think people can appreciate ambient music
(or purely harmonic music, like some Western classical music) without
any physical involvement. It's head music. On the other hand, a
raw, jacking 909 track is going to sound pretty monotonous and jarring
without the physical involvement which turns it into a full-body
rhythmic experience -- body music. Same with most pure drumming;
the repetition involved is boring on a mental level but exhilarting
to move to. Most everything is somewhere between those two extremes.
People can appreciate things in different ways. The developing sounds
and textures of a good minimal track can be experienced as a mental
timbral journey or a physical journey through subtly changing rhythm
and movement. Neither one is a less valid form of "appreciation".
Hmm, but then again, I guess jacking 909 tracks aren't
"intelligent"... ;)
JM