Not to play Captain Poopypants here, but a lot of this lineage-tracing
seems to be a exercise in constructing linear narratives from a scattered,
contradictory and often unrelated scattering of events. Ultimately, we
need some narratives to help organize our understandings of origins and
development, but IDM's histories seem to resist that...and I think that's
a good thing, overall.
If anything unifies EDM, IDM and Electroaccoustic/Tape music's origins,
it's the prevelance of hermetic creativities. So many artists in
electronic music (especially before the last 1/4 of the XX-century) worked
in a state of conceptual isolation, taking their inspiration from a broad
array of sources rather than a father-teacher/student-son scenario.
So, while I recognize the importance of creating creation stories for IDM
and EDM (this is especially true in a classroom setting), we should leave
some room for Other stories, Other voices.
cheers,
Luis
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