--- Future Relic <futurerelic@hotmail.com> wrote:
quoted 3 lines Hmm, but it does have roots in the modern classical
> Hmm, but it does have roots in the modern classical
> music too. Most notably
> Schoenberg's dodecaphonic stuff of the early 1900s.
...
quoted 3 lines I'm not saying this is the root, but it's certainly
> I'm not saying this is the root, but it's certainly
> seems a more fitting
> ancestor than rave music.
I'm quite aware of the long history of experimental
music in general. "IDM" however, is a term for a more
specific cultural and musical genre with a more
specific history and context.
My understanding has come to be: while there has
always been experimental music (and everything else!)
all the way back into the dawn of time, everyone has
to "discover" it for themselves, and "IDM"
specifically came out of people (chiefly british)
involved with rave and otherwise electronic dance
music. They wanted "more" in the music, and began
creating and seeking it out.
It's the drive for more that leads people to find
things that are already there, hence, discovering
experimental music from the "classical" institutions,
and other sources.
Over time, some people might come to "IDM" through
other means, i.e. classical people becoming interested
in what another community is doing, and over further
time they may become meshed together and the next
generation will have to discover it all for
themselves.
But "IDM" itself came from this list and disenchanted
ravers of the very early 90's. "disenchanted ravers"
might be a bad term, but that's my simple
understanding.
Everything else influences, dance is the root.
-Adam
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