This is darling! Thanks for a more adult perspective, it's refreshing. It
sounds like your kids have good ears.
I have a similar story, except they are not my children but my half-siblings
(age 10 & 12). They have grown up with nothing but MTV as their musical
influence. A week ago I asked my brother if he knew what a piccolo looked
like and I got a blank stare. Most of the music I listen to that does not
have that 'pop production' sound, they call weird and turn the other way. I
try and pass off things they haven't heard before but they just keep asking
for the Eminem CD. If they don't see the artist on television, they don't
pay attention.
-lee
on 10/15/00 3:34 AM, Irene McC at substar@iafrica.com wrote:
quoted 52 lines On 14 Oct 2000, Gil Yaker wrote re [idm] weird question (to the parent:
> On 14 Oct 2000, Gil Yaker wrote re [idm] weird question (to the parent:
>
>> Hey, if you are a parent with kids who are not quite infants anymore
>> and older, just wondering, what do they think of the music you listen
>> to (idm mostly..) ?
>
> My two children (girl 11, boy 8) have, since birth, been exposed to
> an enormous variety of music, which I truly believe can only be a
> good thing - from this they can eventually make an informed choice
> as to which direction to follow themselves.
>
> I constantly play predominantly IDM-ish music around the house and
> always in the car on our way to school in the mornings, or trips to
> the shop or longer journeys. So they are a captive audience and
> never ever complain about what I'm playing.
>
> I have taken them to outdoor, overnight camping trance parties - not
> because I am a devotee of the music, but for the actual experience
> of the event.
>
> My husband automatically switches on the radio in the kitchen for
> new bulletins, etc. which then stays tuned to the local top 40 station;
> they hear all the teen-directed crap from TV programmes they
> watch, on w/ends my husband favours radio programmes that play
> 70's + 80's rock.
>
> Sometimes for fun we switch off the lights at night and jump around
> to disco hits... or I'll subject everybody to classic choral works that
> I've sung in my days as choir member (Mahler, Bach, Brahms etc.)
> I'd say, they've heard more variety in terms of music than your
> average kid of similar age growing up in South Africa!
>
> It struck me as interesting that a few years ago my daughter
> requested me to play Black Dog's Bytes as sleep-time music.
>
> The other day I was previewing Kid 606's Down with the Scene and
> she walked in with a quizzical expression on her face, asking the
> Emperor's New Clothes question "Is this MUSIC?" With which I
> could only concur :-)
>
> I
> *
> np : Morgan Geist - presents Environ
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