"Music gives nameless nourishment to the soul" - Jean Cocteau
In the light of that ...it's all good!!! :-)
And they all lived happily ever after. ;o)
Clive
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Sim" <pmxds@nottingham.ac.uk>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] ...another mechanical piece of noise
*snip*
I've a horrible feeling we're drifting towards a What Is The Purpose of
Music and What Effect Should Good Music Have On You argument here, which I'm
not even remotely able to deal with. But whatever effect it should have and
whatever it should do, I'd still say that there exists music that doesn't do
that, and that disguises this by doing something moderately interesting but
irrelevant. And that messing around with DSP for no good reason, like
playing lots of notes very fast, is quite a good way of doing something
moderately interesting but irrelevant. I know that you can't change the
sound texture or the rate at which you're playing without changing what's
happening 'musically,' but sometimes that change seems like 'the point' and
sometimes it seems like a diversionary tactic. Again, the technical
distinction is 'if I like it' against 'if I don't like it.' :-)
David
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