Oh this isn't an ignorant post :)
Last night I tried a demo of reaktor for the first time. Cool as hell, but
now I understand that since so many people are using the same, fully
capable tools, it's no wonder that a lot of stuff sounds similar.
'course music created entirely inside a comptur has years of innovation
left, but I agree w.matt. it's a combination of using ALL posible tools
that yields great new ideas. a little more hardware in the idm scene
wouldn't hurt at all. But then again, I think we need to get away from the
notion that it's the noise creating modules that drive the sound of the
music - the composition tools have way more influence. 'course there's
something incredibly liberating about being able to compose exicting new
works from just one box (eg laptop).
Personally, with what l'usine and arovane (to name a few) are doing with
the mixing and mingling of very acousic sounds in idm seems pretty
exciting. It's getting away from such purely artificial music. Listen
closely, it's a nice new direction that I hope a few others will pick up
on :)
-Gil
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Matt ___ wrote:
quoted 19 lines The problem with most IDM and electronic music nowadays is that the human
> The problem with most IDM and electronic music nowadays is that the human
> feel and sound has been taken out of it. Now that everyone is using trackers
> and software of the sort, MIDI has been gridded and segmented so everything
> is programed and sounds like it is right out of a computer. This really
> shortens the lengths to which electronic music can be taken.
>
> Down with software, back with Hardware!
> qestseq
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