quoted 5 lines Many tracks are _exactly_ the kind of thing I can pull out of a piece of wave> Many tracks are _exactly_ the kind of thing I can pull out of a piece of wave
> editing software given an hour or two (and I'm not pretending I'm clever for
> being able to do that). I was surprised to hear SND needed some custom
> software to pull out the sounds they do, as their stuff would be easy to make
> with many existing packages.
surprisingly, what i remember reading regarding shirt trax is that their
intent was to make music that anybody could do with the most common
software, just as you pointed out.
from what i understand, the trick with this sort of music is not so much
to be 'good' at making it but rather to be able to sort out the
worthwhile stuff from the noodly jams. in that sense, shirt trax
succeeds because they create an atmosphere out of the simplest tonal
arrangements you can think of. so it's really more of a matter of a
certain music speaking your language than it being good or 'hard to do'
(although that can be appreciated too, but differently).
but, yeah, it's way abstract & there's not too many beats. it's also
not the sort of minimalism people are used to (i.e. not the dubby
minimal house that some people simply refer to as 'minimal' nowadays).
but the arrangement of tones works, the same way your rothko paintings
work even if they're just two colors assembled together.
~ david
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