Re: [idm] How 'cutting edge'/difficult does IDM have to be?
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quoted 3 lines This could still be IDM. I think it just depends on the depth, intricacy,> This could still be IDM. I think it just depends on the depth, intricacy,
> and complexity of the rhythm and the unconventionality of the
> melody/harmony.
I think most IDM is both rhythmically and harmonically very conventional. It
just follows the IDM conventions, not, say, pop-conventions.
quoted 1 line overall, i suppose squarepusher makes drill 'n' bass or whatever, not IDM.> overall, i suppose squarepusher makes drill 'n' bass or whatever, not IDM.
But I'd definately say that drill'n'bass (as well as folktronica) is a
subgenre of IDM. Else you are claiming that classic IDM-albums like Richard
D. James Album and Lunatic Harness (and, yes, lots of Squarepusher's work)
are not IDM at all, which seems infeasible.
quoted 6 lines i think if the artist is aware that music has the potential to make a> i think if the artist is aware that music has the potential to make a
> statement then it will be reflected in the music. it will go beyond
> the problem of convincing a club patron to buy a drink and get
> on the dance floor, but may even solve the problem of making that
> patron turn inward and wonder something about him/herself and
> the universe (if that is the intent of the music).
I think most IDM artists aren't really interested in making any
'statements'. I've always viewed IDM as a sort of escapist genre, with no
intentions of making anyone realize anything beyond the music. There is
little of the musique concrete spirit of making pompous manifest and
grandiloquent plans - most IDMers seem more keen in just having fun. IDM is
IMO not the heir of the Cageian spirit.
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