gmv500 wrote:
quoted 4 lines first I think anyone who is on this list must be required to own Artificial
> first I think anyone who is on this list must be required to own Artificial
> Intelligence I+II, and Aphex's SAW I.
>
> those three CD's form the theoretical basis for IDM101!!!!
"Theoretical basis" is nice. It gives us a datum to work from but does
not necessarily limit us. A good test with this U2 thread is how do you
relate or show the link between POP and SAW1, say.
quoted 2 lines after studying the CD's mentioned above, I think that anyone with any
> after studying the CD's mentioned above, I think that anyone with any
> ammount of measureable INTELLIGENCE will realize the following....
(lists quite a few indicators / rules-of-thumb that work in general but
in my opinion come AFTER the fact.)
I've always liked the "language" model of music. That is, a track has a
vocabulary, a grammar, a style and a message. I suspect that the
grammar - the structural aspect of the music - is the parameter which
is experimented with most by the "required listening" (RL) artists
mentioned above. The next parameter on the hit list is probably the
vocab - the sonic arsenal - knob twiddling, sampler fiddling etc. Style
tends to affect both these parameters and is a very difficult parameter
to define - we know that AFX's style evolved from SAW1
to RDJAlbum and that it differs from, say, Kenny Larkin, but how do you
define it?? - very much an open question. Finally Message - what is the
artist saying / alternatively, what is the listener hearing?. In
rock'n'roll
the lyrics form an important part of it - the backing adds the emotion.
The RL examples above are abstract. Without lyrics we are given more
freedom to draw our own conclusions and think.
Okay, so the RL examples above demonstrate experimentation and very
importantly _expression_ in Grammar, Vocab, Style and Message.
Accordingly, the listener has lots to think about, lots to focus his/her
intellect or intelligence on.
If you analyse U2's latest album this way then what do you find? We see
a shift in style and vocab towards those used in the IDM domain. But
the expression is still very much through conventional song (albeit
dance). Too few language dimensions are being manipulated to qualify as
IDM (wrt the RL datum above).
Just a first-cut,
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