quoted 6 lines Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:00:25 -0600
>Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:00:25 -0600
>From: Michael Stein <mstein@MasterChart.com>
>Subject: RE: (idm) RE: Jim O'Rourke?
>
>Ambient may be ambient. But ambient is also a subset of what can be called
>IDM.
i'd wager that ambient intersects IDM from time to time, but it certainly
is not a subset of it! there are many ambient artists who do not put out
anything like:
quoted 1 line ....hip-hop, drum'n'bass, trance, musique concrete, dub, etc....
>....hip-hop, drum'n'bass, trance, musique concrete, dub, etc....
these, too, are all genres which often cross-over with IDM.
IDM is not monolithic or static enough to pin down to any one genre.
(though the d'n'b cliche came close to ingesting it a few years back)
perhaps where all these genres intersect at a cultural, communal point in
time -- where electronic instruments and arrangements are involved -- would
be a better way to define 'IDM'. it is certainly optimistic to define an
artform by the fact that it is always on the move, with constant
cross-pollination and reexamination of all kinds of influences. music that
escapes the hangman's noose of definition.
Alex Reynolds
SAS Computing / Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
V +1 215 573.2818 / F +1 215 898.8780
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~reynolda/
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