On Feb 16, 2005, at 3:15 AM, pulse wrote:
quoted 2 lines Slap me, but I believe most people are not "intelectuals" when they> Slap me, but I believe most people are not "intelectuals" when they
> listen to music, they are emotive.
I agree with this. But the thing is, something like "Gantz Graf" has
much more emotional resonance with me than virtually any electronic
dance music, which to me is practically a contradiction in terms. My
best dance experiences have been propelled by large groups of sweaty
humans (e.g. Trouble Funk or Ivo Papasov's Bulgarian Wedding Band), and
the surest way to get me off the floor is to play some techno, which I
find about as funky as John Denver.
Likewise, with a few exceptions such as Max Tundra, I find most
"melodic" electronic music unsatisfying. Too often it's just turning
various elements of a two-bar sequence on and off, with no real
development. For strong melodies I tend to turn to folk, classical or
pop music.
Obviously, many people have the opposite experience in both of these
cases, and that's great. I just want to dispel the idea that people who
like the glitchy stuff (or, for that matter, Stockhausen and Subotnick)
are just sitting there scratching their chins and spotting the DSP
techniques. I listen to it because it moves me more, not less, than
EBM, techno, or whatever. In fact, it often makes me grin like an
idiot.
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