At 3:13 AM -0700 5/24/03, Charles Freeman wrote:
quoted 1 line What I hear in pusher's new works is the heart of jazz, but in new terms.>What I hear in pusher's new works is the heart of jazz, but in new terms.
interesting. yea, i don't know, it just sounds so cool and 'composed'
to me. every blorp and snare fill has been carefully
sequenced/edited/permitted. reminds me of the (possibly inaccurate)
reports around the time of Go Plastic that his live sets we largely
prerecorded.
i guess it must depend on what you find essential in jazz. if it's
any kind of instrumental exploration with a lot of rhythmic ideas,
then i guess Squarepusher fits. if it's a certain essentially
African-American musical tradition that emphasizes improvisation, I'm
not seeing it.
quoted 5 lines Whatís the point of trying to make something sound acoustic when>Whatís the point of trying to make something sound acoustic when
>it's electronic? It makes no sense. If you're going to make that
>kind of music do it with live musicians playing instruments, not
>with a laptop. Pusherís new stuff pushes the envelope of what music
>is. Heís not concerned with what music was in the past,
ironically, i feel like when he 'came back' to a more electronic
sound, he was no longer pushing the envelope. I mean, when his
material was more focussed around his bass playing, he was doing
things few others of his scene could do, or would know about. it
brought him to invent things i'd never heard before, even if they
referenced older music.
Now that he's a laptop twiddler, he's doing lots of the same things a
lot of other laptop twiddlers are doing. the basic ideas don't seem
so surprising to me the way they might have five or ten years ago.
Oh well, to each his own. the guy's definately talented, and i'll
keep buying his records to see what he's up to, whether i like them
or not. i'm hoping he'll spin off some side projects in some other
style.
k
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