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(idm) Re: idm V1 #1048

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1997-04-04 21:17Eric Hill (idm) Re: idm V1 #1048
1997-04-04 21:20Eric Hill (idm) Re: idm V1 #1048
1997-04-07 12:35Dave Walker Re: (idm) Re: idm V1 #1048
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1997-04-04 21:17Eric Hill>There's no distinction to make. Let's forget about that abstract idm >definition for a mo
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Fri, 04 Apr 1997 13:17:37 -0800
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quoted 4 lines There's no distinction to make. Let's forget about that abstract idm>There's no distinction to make. Let's forget about that abstract idm >definition for a moment and just consider some of our favourite records from >Rephlex, Warp, Clear, whoever. Now, what makes them different from something >like Herbie Hancock, or Brian Eno? Come on, really different?
leo annibaldi=dennis coffey?
quoted 3 lines completely miss the point of what the music is about. Why can't people>completely miss the point of what the music is about. Why can't people >accept a single piece of music as communicating a special and individual >message?
It would be stupid to try and reduce a Herbie Hancock (for example) album down to having just one point. If a "fan" of Herbie's took the time and precious brain power to do this, it would be pretty darn arrogant to assume that another fan of Herbie arrived at the same conclusion, which would then require a long thread/fistfight to come to some sort of consensus. This consensus would no doubt be a double-stupid move in which each "fan" would take an abstracted (from mental idea into words) personal definition of the work reduced to The Point of the Piece and strike a compromise, for the sake of a group's agreement, about the work in question to arrive at a Universal Point of the Piece. After which they would probably move on to figuring out The Point of All Music. This doesn't even touch on the stupidity in trying to figure out where Herbie himself fits in to all of this, which he doesn't, since he's just the poor sap who is being squashed in order to fit somebody's _guess_ about what (his) music is communicating. human error indeed eric
1997-04-04 21:20Eric Hill>music) should be worthy of our attention if it's a microscopically sequenced >scientific
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quoted 3 lines music) should be worthy of our attention if it's a microscopically sequenced>music) should be worthy of our attention if it's a microscopically sequenced >scientific masterpiece or a simple yet soulful looped breakbeat with a live >synth solo on it[...]
yeah, lots of people are good at sticking with one or the other, but if you change the "or" between your criteria to an "and," you get artists like atom heart and the cheap posse. eric
1997-04-07 12:35Dave WalkerOn Fri, Apr 4, 1997 5:17 PM, Eric Hill <mailto:ehill@best.com> wrote: : leo annibaldi=denn
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On Fri, Apr 4, 1997 5:17 PM, Eric Hill <mailto:ehill@best.com> wrote: : leo annibaldi=dennis coffey? This is completely irrelevant to everything (which simply makes it like 9 out of 10 posts these days), but Dennis Coffey worked as a technical writer here at this place where I do that tech support / net support etc. etc. thing. He played clubs at night and worked as an automotive service tech writer during the day. Kept a gold record in his cube, next to the engine manuals. -d.w. roush technical services which was still Detroit Art Services when Dennis was here shall we hire a plane to carpetbomb down memory lane?