Highly subjective? Yes, that was my point exactly. Thank you for
understanding.
---brian
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-----Original Message-----
From: andrei@world.std.com [mailto:andrei@world.std.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:49 AM
To: IDM
Subject: Re: [idm] arovane
"Gause, Brian" wrote:
quoted 2 lines It's music. It doesn't HAVE to be groundbreaking. It just has to make you> It's music. It doesn't HAVE to be groundbreaking. It just has to make you
> feel something. Music isn't always about standing tallest in the ivory
tower
quoted 1 line of intellectual sound sculptures.> of intellectual sound sculptures.
Well, that's highly subjective. There are people who would deem any music
which
doesn't introduce some new idea worthless (i.e. Pierre Boulez) and there are
people
who compose music more as some sort of scientific experiment not to "make
you feel
something" (i.e. Xenakis).
quoted 2 lines On the other hand, Autechre create sound that is intellectually> On the other hand, Autechre create sound that is intellectually
> beautiful and can be admired from a different perspective.
Autechre intellectual ? Come on !
And personally I really enjoy Arovane's music, especially recently. I mean I
don't
think he's quite top tier stuff a la Aphex and Autechre, but he's very high
up there
in my esteem. You can tell he's been influenced by the standard IDM stuff,
but
there's a maturity in his work which doesn't relegate it to mere mimicry
(i.e.
Funkstorung, Fizzarum, etc.). There's something very enthralling about his
compositions. He really knows how to create an atmosphere and a mood. I'd
say 'thaem
neu" off "Atol Scrap" is one of my favorite IDM tracks. I was playing that
piece at a
party recently and right away a couple of people were like "this is really
beautiful". At first I was a lot more into "Tides" than "Atol Scrap", but I
find the
more I listen to "Atol Scrap" the more it grows on me.
Andrei
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