quoted 5 lines but it does slightly offend me when people assume that electronic music> but it does slightly offend me when people assume that electronic music
>is programmed in the same fashion that someone writes computer code...it's
>not too much different a process than a guitar band going into a modern
>digital studio and recording multiple tracks of everything and then
>editing out all the mistakes...
I'm sorry, but you are wrong.
Wwhether it offends you or not, the reality is that most 'idm' type music
is made wholely or partly in ways that bear very little resemblence
indeed to the 'process' you mention.
Its not just a question of 'live playing' versus step-time, there are a
million ways to make electronic music in which the live playing (at least
in the sense that you are using it) aspect is completely absent, for
example roland drum machine and 303 type programming either on these
machines or on ReBirth type clones, Max, drumgrid editing, Metasynth,
using waveloops inside synthesisers, breaking up and restructuring
breakbeats in samplers or audio sequencers, using intelligent
arpegiators, algorithmic composition techniques etc etc
Some or all of these techniques (and many others) are widely used in
everything from house to techno to drum n'bass to electronica to
experimental whatever ...
There are also many techniques in which although a few notes might indeed
actually get 'played' at some point, these few notes are then looped,
transposed, time stretched, reversed, layered, mixed and mangled in ways
that would probably make your average 'guitar band in the studio' really
rather nervous ;-)