quoted 10 lines The fact that you don't know what the> > The fact that you don't know what the
> > hell it was speaks volumes for its greatness. Music
> > that leaves listeners utterly baffled should be treasured.
> >
>
> what a ridiculous idea. being baffling does not qualify something as
> great.
>
> A collection of sounds do not
> a song make.
I always thought intentional obtuseness a defining trait of idm?
I mean this only partially sarcastically to the extent that it seems like
most of the art I enjoy endeavors to be "just different" at some level.
Artistic experimentation (hell, all experimentation) requires that you
sometimes do something differently just because you're trying to not be the
same as everyone else. Choosing one method of being different versus another
is where the real trick lies, yet (contrary to most 20th century
avante-garde modernist thinking) there's no empirical logic to determining
what is "good different" versus "bad different". For example, an artist
could decide, "Hey, I'll try this song in a different key" or "Let's try
this with a ton of reverb" just to try to inject an element of the
unexpected into his or her work. Conversely, he or she could say "I'll try
jacking this track up to 453 bpm and replace the kick drum with a fart
sound" (but then they'd be Alec Empire).
I think what we're talking about here is analogous to the difference between
the words "purposeful" and "gratuitous".
-cf
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