On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:54:21 -0400 (EDT) laerm <laerm@voicenet.com>
writes:
quoted 24 lines On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Michael Upton wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Michael Upton wrote:
>
>> Re: any perceived decrease in quality over the past few years - I
>wonder
>> if it's being jaded. I find listening to very un-IDM music
>(programming
>> free, primarily song based stuff; or gamelan, or whatever) can work
>like
>> cleaning the palette when there's _so_much_ product out there now.
>this is how i feel when i write music. desires to write really hit me
>in
>strong streaks, usually depending on what i've been recently listening
>to.
>if i've been listening to a lot of ambient, and i feel a desire to
>write
>something, it usually turns out to be an aggressive industrial track.
>now,
>when i've been listening to industrial for awhile, and i feel a desire
>to
>write, and it turns out to be an industrial track, it's usually crap;
>whereas he one i wrote after listening to ambient for awhile is (imho)
>pretty good. same thing goes for hip-hop/post-rock; jazz/synthpop;
>dub/idm. anyone else noticed this?
>
it doesn't quite werk that way 4 me. in my experience, i'll B trying 2
fall asleep and gradually a track or song will just start 2 appear in my
mind. i will B unconsciously humming along with it in my head and them
suddenly B-come aware that i have this really kick ass track running in
my brain. they are songs i've never heard B-4 but they are made from
sounds and samples that i have heard (many of the sounds i cant recall
ever hearing either). i dont understand how i could make up sounds i've
never heard B-4, but thats what it seems like. i usually find myself
scrabbling 2 get out of bed so i kan find my micro cassette recorder
catch the harmonies B-4 i forget them. my micro cassette recorder has not
had any batteries 4 a while. i loose a lot of trax that way. oh well,
there will always B new 1s
its kinda wacky,
rod
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