On Wednesday 22 January 2003 17:07, iteration zero wrote:
quoted 4 lines I guess that's where the disconnect in our preferences occurs, since> I guess that's where the disconnect in our preferences occurs, since
> Appetite For Discstruction was very flat sounding to me. All a matter
> of taste. Maybe we can start and offshoot of the current iteration of
> the "old Autechre vs. new Autechre" thread based around Funkstorung.
Well it's all a matter of imagination, isn't it?
It's one of the things that sets idm apart from other genres, the total
obsession with new ideas, new sounds, new rhythms, stuff that you've
never heard before. It is technological music because it has been new
technology which has been driving the new ideas, opening up sonic
opportunities that were never possible before.
The crucial component of this though is the human imagination - the
technology has created new opportunities, but without imagination there
is nothing to turn those new opportunities into results, nothing to
stitch those new sounds into new music.
Unfortunately imagination is a limited resource, like entropy,
randomness - and this is probably because imagination and entropy are
closely related. People have limited stocks of it, and eventually,
through use or through age, it begins to run low.
Sometimes the music gets samey and uninteresting. The artist loses
their edge. Sometimes, in an attempt to compensate, the artist tries
to compensate by finding external sources of entropy - like Autechre's
move towards computer-generated music.
The trouble is that computers just aren't as good at imagining things as
humans are... not yet, anyway.
--
marm
(now returning you to your normal thread of consciousness)
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