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From:
David William Newman
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idm hyperreal
Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:49:07 +0000
Subject:
[idm] Re: The great DSP noise debate
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Context and balance is a big issue here... dsp noise and trickery can sound both complex and beautiful if framed in the right audio environment.... where there are elements of softness, soothing, quietness - just like you need a range of colours to appreciate white and black in images and visa versa.... DSP is a tool - a timbre that can add variety and richness to a piece in my opinion - it can also be over-done. david @ audiobulb clive-harris writes:
quoted 10 lines Dear all,> Dear all, > > I guess I'm quite enjoying watching the debate unfold (again?). I have my own opinions on the topic, but these are also shared by some of the contributors to the debate so far, so I'm keeping my mouth shut for the moment. Maybe I'll contribute later, when blood pressures are lower! > > Related to this, didn't Terre Thaemlitz rail against (the ubiquity and uniformity of) glitch-hop a while back? I can't find this piece on his own website (see http://www.comatonse.com/writings/index.html#tt for other artcles written by or on him) but does anyone else have a reference to it? Could it have been in The Wire, perhaps? I remember thinking that he had a point (despite the fact that I *do* tend to like "glitch-hoppiness"). > > I also ought to remind the debaters that this started as a critique of *DSP* noise in particular, not just all noise (although I acknowledge that - obviously - DSP glitchiness is necessarily a subset of "all noise"). > > Regards, > Clive
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