gmv500 posted:
quoted 2 lines Be Bop jazz (which in my mind> Be Bop jazz (which in my mind
> takes an INTELLIGENT listener).
Now - somebody explain this to me, I missed class - why is it that as
soon as some people start tripping off Bird they think they're in line
for the bloody Presidency of Mensa, anyway?
I thought it was the *musicians making IDM* who were the ones behind
IDM's 'intelligence', not the listeners. If it all it takes to make IDM
is an intelligent listener, then hell, IDM could just be a figment of
the listener's imagination, an auditory hallucination. Who needs the
rekkids? What use is trainspotting? I'm intelligent, I'm dancing, it's
music to my ears, it's -- IDM!
Remember - it's the *music* that's intelligent. Just because we happen
listen to it & enjoy it doesn't make us Bertrand bloody Russells. One
should always take a little time to pop a hole in one's own poseurship.
signifier over signified signing off