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In a message dated 5/13/99 1:06:39 PM Mountain Daylight Time, roesch@augsburg.edu writes:

quoted 3 lines Blue Calx and Whatever the song with the windchimes are my

> Blue Calx and Whatever the song with the windchimes are my > favorites, for personal reasons (they connect with me in a certain way due > to some personal experiences, it's not cos i think they sound better).

That connection on a personal basis could be the most important part. SAWII for me re-envoked emotions I had when I was a child. Emotions of fantasy and isolationism, it was so true to a world that I would love to live in.. a world that appeased to me so greatly that I wanted to saturate myself in it.. I spent the next couple of months concentrating on SAWII, going to sleep with it on every night with shuffle repeat on (oh.. that's why I'm crazy.. hehe), spending time concentrating on the sounds, where they took me, why did it connect with me so much, I loved it, it was like audible drugs, I listened to it over and over again and it never got old, it created a fantastic world I could withdrawl into, a world that fascinated me, it was a perfect example of what it should be.. it was a perfect example of what it meant, I understood why it was.. and I wanted so bad for other people to understand as well.. needless to say.. they never did. I don't want to hate anybody,.. all I've really wanted my whole life was friends.. something I've never had many of.. and no it's not because I make lude outbursts, people who do shit like that in real life usually have alot of friends.. hey, you know, it's a standard that admitting things like that makes you an automatic loser,. but you know what, I know for a goddamn fact that there isn't a one of you out there who doesn't have his own problems.. Hey, why don't some of you people point and grin at me and pretend you are perfect.. oh no, you can't do that, pretending you are perfect will make you imperfect, then in that case, give a little slack where it doesn't count to give you that little chip of imperfection that any good work of art has that makes it perfect "for real"... that is so IDM way of thinking..I will admit all my faults, I will admit them all.. and I will speak my mind, I will speak it all. That's better than the lot of you can say. -=Aaron the fuck

quoted 2 lines That connection on a personal basis could be the most important part. SAWII

>That connection on a personal basis could be the most important part. SAWII >for me re-envoked emotions I had when I was a child.

Yeah, my grandmother used to have windchimes that sound exactly like the ones he uses. Well, aaron, thank you for an entire long post where "SAWII" was the only word in allcaps. And you will be picked on for a while, your outbursts were rather funny IMO. It's great that you live the music you love, blah blah, but this is not just a chat group. Speak your mind, but don't speak about speaking your mind. That changes the subject from music, which we can all experience, to your psyche, which the rest of us can only guess at from several very awkward, rambling, flaming posts. ObIDM: I heard that Oval has an album or two entirely of CD errors. Anyone want to point me in the proper direction, give recommendations, etc? _________________________________ Adam Roesch / roesch@augsburg.edu Augsburg College / Minneapolis / MN / USA Visit my Fila Brazillia/Pork Recordings fan site: http://dogbert.augsburg.edu/~roesch/pork/ "The only disease we need in our blood is love" TRICKY

At 10:35 14.05.99 +0200, Irene McC wrote:

quoted 4 lines Gee, if you're really keen, I can MAKE you one like that... I've got a

>Gee, if you're really keen, I can MAKE you one like that... I've got a >very irritating CD burner that randomly does Pole impersonations >with clicks and pops unwantedly all over the show... What's so >good about this sh!t? I'd prefer my music clean and error-free.

are you sure it's the burner that's responsible for the clicks? it's very likely that your cd-rom drive (or the burner acting as cd-rom drive) is the one to put the blame on. check this by leaving the extracted .wav files on your hd, then listen to the freshly burnt cdr, and if you notice clicks, load that .wav track into a sound editor and see if the clicks are there, too. if they are, keep your cdr burner and either get a plextor ultraplex 14/32x cd-rom drive (less than $100 and the best audio extracting you can get) or extract your audio at 1x speed (which may or may not help). as not everyone knows, the concept of error detection in data cdroms does not apply to audio extraction. some, but not all cd-rom drives use the same error correction that audio players use at 1x speed, but at every speed faster than 1x it completely depends on the combination of your cdrom drive and the audio disc. cheers, tom

On Fri, 14 May 1999 10:35:32 Irene McC wrote:

quoted 1 line What's so good about this sh!t? I'd prefer my music >clean and error-free.

>What's so good about this sh!t? I'd prefer my music >clean and error-free.

Well, prefer the opposite and you'll see what's so good. :-) For the record, I think Oval (particularly 'Systemisch') generally sound very clean and deliberate, but that's probably applying slightly different meanings to the words you're using.

quoted 4 lines On that note, I must confess that one Oval CD (Systemisch in my

>On that note, I must confess that one Oval CD (Systemisch in my >case) is quite enough - I've heard Dok as well, but can't work up >any energy to get excited about this at all. I'm sure I miss the >point - whatever it is - completely.

I got the impression that enjoyable music seemed to be a complete sideline to the point of Oval stuff. That 'Systemisch' might be an enjoyable listen always strikes me as more coincidence than anything. I was a little baffled by Markus Popp turning up on Gastr Del Sol's latest, because that seemed to have little to do with wilful exercises in sound design or comment on the restrictive processes involved in writing electronic music, and a lot more to do with adding texture to the background of songs. Maybe Markus Popp got soft. ;-) Michael Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com