quoted 7 lines One period of music that I think is very interesting and one could>One period of music that I think is very interesting and one could
>probably learn >a lot from occurred in the very early 20th century, when
>composers who had >come up on late-Romantic music (arguably the most
>intensely emotional >music) began transforming themselves into radical
>modernists. In most cases, >the composers didn't shift over night, and
>there are a lot of strange and >interesting pieces that lie somewhere in
>between. (Oh, stuff like Schoenberg's >first Chamber Symphony).
word. i think we can parallel this discussion to the early 20th century,
and see ourselves on a similar plane of development presently with IDM. i
think that while schoenberg suspended a tonal center and while the
futurists/varese/cage began seeing ANY sound as musical, eventually, these
ideas evolved to include atonal/noisy sections of pieces... we eventually
used a similar (if not the same) aesthetic to construct more "accessible"
music... from musique concrete, people started fucking around in the studio
(look at the beach boys for christ's sake!), and they were making really
pretty music! (not to say that reich isn't cool, but i'd rather hear "pet
sounds" than "come out"!)
anyway, i think that IDM (for the most part, anyway) might be in that
schoenberg/futurist stage. sure, there are a lot of people using consonant
melodies, etc., but i feel like the sheer amount of posts about this thread
might mean some feel IDM can be more organic? maybe? for those of us who
feel detached, maybe we feel the music will progress to encompass a human
element?
good ideas, kurt.
zachary
zim200@is7.nyu.edu
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