On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Eric Hill wrote:
quoted 12 lines earlier, idm wrote:
> earlier, idm wrote:
> >> ><< only because the four-on-the-floor bassdrum replicates the structure of
> >> > totalitarian political organization!
> >> Presumably this is in reference to Stockhausen's comments on Plastikman
> >> and the Aphex Twin late in 1995. Check the list archives for more info.
> >
> >Much of the work of so-called "serious music" composers in the last few
> >decades goes through all sorts of contortions to -avoid- a discernible
> >pulse.
>
> except that karlheinz doesn't seem to like music very much. he seems to say
> that any identifiable repetition is bad.
More important to his way of thinking: it's been done for hundreds of
years.
quoted 3 lines by inventing increasingly abstract
> by inventing increasingly abstract
> structural formulas for his experiments, he makes a case for a
> nearly-formless ("non-metric and non-periodic") music.
It's not "formless", but rather the form isn't built on the usual
foundations.
quoted 1 line karlheinz and fouronthefloor are the hymns of "either/or" thinkers.
> karlheinz and fouronthefloor are the hymns of "either/or" thinkers.
Yeah, that type of thinking drives me nuts.
--Mark
was playing: new acid-ish track (in progress), new d'n'b-ish track
(completed), Oasis' 1st LP (vinyl), MP3 of recent track to test the
server, Photek 12"es, Belle & Sebastian.
will be playing: new Portishead, Al Comet, Brume.
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