On Jan 25, 2005, at 9:24 AM, ed c wrote:
quoted 6 lines keeping the tradition of noise alive is essential to IDM and to all> keeping the tradition of noise alive is essential to IDM and to all
> electronic music. It helps with the advancement of synthesis and the
> advancement of sound in general. If people didn't have an intrest in
> new sound then new synthesis would not be created. If it wasn't for
> micro-sound granulizer synthesizers would not have been made and
> Geogaddi would have sounded a lot different.
I agree fully, however, I feel I must make a slight revision to your
statement. Granular synthesis existed long before so-called
"micro-sound" music was around. Just to be a devil's advocate,
mathematicians/programmers don't really care about music genres per sé
and work on new algorithms and synthesis technologies simply to make
new things and as an intellectual exercise (some do care about making a
profit, which is why companies like Native Instruments, Symbolic Sound
and Cycling 74 are around). Musicians capitalize on the technology
later. The mathematicians behind granular synthesis (or vector,
subtractive, additive, physical modeling, frequency modulation,
transwave/wavetable or any other type of synthesis for that matter)
don't really concern themselves with how it's going to be used.
With all that said, I agree with you in principle. And for the record,
I love noise. I came to IDM back in the mid-90s by way of
noise/industrial/experimental music, so I have no problem with
Autechre's more dissonant moments. I do like melody, too, though.
Everything has its own place.
--
Mr. Tangent [the binary police]
www.mrtangent.com
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