quoted 9 lines Heard the full-length CD yesterday. Dance music. Not intelligent. Well,>>Heard the full-length CD yesterday. Dance music. Not intelligent. Well,
>>intelligence is relative to one's own IQ, so you're entitled to disagree.
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>I agree. Their music has a dopey quality, which in its own way is very
>appealing, but this is not what I call an intricate sonic canvas. Still
>great fun, tho. The way they take a simple motif (i.e. "Musique",
>"Daftendirect") and tweak/filter the sample is pretty cool.
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So if we equate this to, say, modern art movements, it'd be
Daft Punk= Minimalist
IDM= Abstract Expressionism/Conceptual?
All have equal merit and great contributions...
All forms of musical expression take at least some measure of intelligence,
whether it be to work the machines that create sounds, or to mold as-of-yet
formless creativity into something tanglible. You have to have some smarts
as to what your end product's going to be. Are you going to put out a
floor-mover, or a track that invokes deep listening? Some of the most
beautiful canvases i've seen aren't intricate at all.
I've always been attracted to those that can push the boundries of
expression within the confines of minimalism. it may be a little
'high-brow' of me to apply this to Daft Punk, but so far they're the best
i've heard at at taking a simple 4/4 house beat and essentially one sample
and putting together a 6 min. track that holds my interest. So i considered
them intelligent, to a point. who knows if they consider themselves as such
tho?
Maybe they simply exist to put out floor-movin' dance tracks, and i just
think too much. It's all relative, speculation, opinions.
But because i think of them as intelligent, and others may not; i don't
really think this reflects my own IQ.
Do you?
hm.
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