--- Marco Carbone <mcarbone@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
quoted 11 lines Well here's a proposed solution to the "intelligent"
> Well here's a proposed solution to the "intelligent"
> problem that arises
> from the appellation IDM: now, it's clear that no
> one really likes the fact
> that this genre of music is called intelligent,
> because it implies some
> pretentious on the part of the listener or the part
> of the composer, or
> both. So how about we go ahead and say that IDM
> stands for
> nothing? That's right, nothing.
That's a bit of a cop-out, isn't it? Empty acronyms
follow flawed concepts, like the SAT, and I guess the
beaurocracy behind DVD. Negating its meaning just
obscures the music even more. Why shouldn't the term
stand for something? How about something similar and
more confrontational, yet ultimately simple: refuse
illogical thinking (in this case). The issues people
take with the word "intelligent" are really
non-issues. Why negate the entire term IDM when only
1/3 of its parts is "controversial"? (and even that
doesn't really seem to be much of an issue, besides
the bad rep which follows).
Seriously though, no one is going to change the
worldwide use of the term IDM. Tinkering with a term
(that belongs to no one entity but the public domain)
and universally changing its meaning is too complex
for a global change. If anything, another term will
replace it as the music changes significantly enough
to warrant a new moniker, a la "breakbeat" vs.
"jungle" vs. "drum and bass." Let's just pray that
the "braindance" campaign doesn't gain ground...
Ben
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