On 23/08/02 17:03, tomoroh hidari said in living color:
quoted 7 lines the three cds and two vinyls currently rotating @ my home (whenever i'm not>
> the three cds and two vinyls currently rotating @ my home (whenever i'm not
> making musick):
>
> alva noto - prototypes (cd) - imho alva noto is one of the best of the
> clicks and cuts fraction. i love the funkyness of his minimal arrangements
> and the pure quality of the sounds...
For sure... He's one of the few in the genre who masters so well the art of
creating those, uh, precise "paths of tension".
I sampled very short fragments of the recent "transform" at a store a while
ago and that seemed even better, though I haven't bought it yet for some
reason. (Actually, for a very precise reason...)
quoted 2 lines astrobotnia 1 - (cd) i wanna kill everyone, satan is good, satan is my pal"> astrobotnia 1 - (cd) i wanna kill everyone, satan is good, satan is my pal"
> - they bring back some much needed fun into idm
I've seen this mentioned several times on the list. I should probably check
that out.
How do the three releases compare? Is the situation similar to Pole where
owning one of the three CDs pretty much suffices? In that case, which one
would be preferable? Etc.
quoted 8 lines morton subotnick - touch/a sky of cloudless sulphur. (cd) - yes, i am very> morton subotnick - touch/a sky of cloudless sulphur. (cd) - yes, i am very
> much into electroacoustics and i am a great fan of subotnick. although "the
> wild bull" and "silver apples on the moon" are better known, i prefer these
> two recordings (which are on one cd, together with "gestures" -
> unfortunately i have only the stereo-cd version, as there exists a 5.1 dvd
> version on mode records), especially the rythmic parts in "a sky..." they
> reach a fuckedupness and extatic density which i only encountered on some
> of coils best moments and the later ae stuff
When it comes to Morton Subotnick, for me, there is a very strong dividing
line separating the great from the awful.
IMO, again:
Silver Apples/Wild Bull goes in the great category.
Return/Key to Songs goes in the awful category.
From this, I induced the rule that early Subotnick is good and late
Subotnick is bad. Which would seem to indicate that "Touch" (1969) would be
good and would leave an aura of incertitude around "A Sky of Cloudless
Sulphur" (1978) -- or perhaps I could infer that it is a merely acceptable
piece... Per this rule, "Gestures" would be awful, being a very recent work
(1998-2000).
Any comments/further opinions on this?
Maybe I should also point out an artist who has deeply impressed me
recently: Janek Schaefer.
It's not IDM (more in the microsound vein) but what the heck. He creates
music with multi-armed turntables of his own fabrication. But that
interesting factoid is not the point; the point is that he makes fantastic
music, warmly atmospheric, with very nicely interoperating multiple layers.
Yada yada yada... I don't have time to describe it more precisely. Do check
it out. ("Pulled Under" on AudiOh! -- and if you can catch him live, don't
miss the occasion. I first heard his music live at Mutek and it was a
revelation.)
g.
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Guillaume Grenier - gollum@videotron.ca
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