quoted 1 line what would make music "better"?
>what would make music "better"?
Zim, let me try......
A guy with the initials ER, said to me....."I dont think, I do!" Great
statement in my eyes, and thats a start to answering your inquiry. My
thing, and it may be the same with cats Like Mad Mike, D. May and other
Giants outta the D-area, quit all the intellectual bullshit, the cyber
bullshit.....excuse me I can say this in a different way......No thinking is
involved, and many wonder what SOUL is......it comes from within....
In relations to the body it would come from the heart not the Head(sorry for
steppn on cultural shibboleths here). Its all music, and we have our
different likes, but for me, if its not from within....it aint happening.
Case in point, as Modal Man brought out, there is too much relying on the
Machine! However, when you interface with the machine(like your
girlfriend), then your energy should be stronger...and the machine is then a
tool by which you express yourself, ART. Vice versa, then U are the
tool(not U personally Zim)...being used, and like soggy bread, the music is
weak and flimsy....
Less thinking, more human element! Like Nuron, and what he did with just a
PIANO! Or with Broom, Pickton and the B-12 boys with STRINGS! In fact one
tune by Repeat, has this percussion that keeps me running home to hear
it......its the human element fella that makes it good to me......perhaps
making it better......
Did I mention integrity, thats another chapter, but I gotta check for FCKIN
mistakes now!
O!
-----Original Message-----
From: zimbette [mailto:tofu@uci.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 8:25 AM
To: Intermodal
Cc: Kelley Hackett; 'James R McPherson '; 'idm@hyperreal.org'
Subject: Re: [idm] damn jazz shit - DELETE if you don't like
nitpickyness
what would make music "better"?
and whats the difference between shit made as a result of cheap computer
stuff and shit made as a result of cheap guitars (or any instrument)?
how does something "wreck" music?
curious,
chris.
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Intermodal wrote:
quoted 43 lines Hello,
> Hello,
>
> I have to agree with Kelly on this one. I think that modern music
> technology has wrecked music in a way. The continuing goal has been to
> make music cheaper and easier to create, but not necessarily to make it
> better. It could be said that cheap computers and music software has
> been responcible for unleashing an utter titlewave of shite music on the
> world.
>
> It has always been that medocrity has dominated the world, as we are by
> and large a medocre species. But now we have given people who do not
> want to put much effort into making music the ability to create and
> release music. I can appreciate the democratizing effect cheap equipment
> has had, but do we really need all this bang-wagon music that is being
> released now. Even the releases that are being lauded on this list are
> not always that great, and I doubt they will still be relevant in 5
> years when their idm snob novelty value has worn off.
>
> As of late, I am appreciating Jazz more and more. The harmonic
> structures are much more complex than most idm. The spacing and phrasing
> can be so far beyond your standard Cubase driven melodic idm track, it
> seems to be the direction to move in in the next few years. I never
> thought I would see the day where I would consider a book of music
> theory to be the single most important piece of musical equipment I own.
>
> Now that I have gone on this tangent, can I get some recommendations?
> Here is what I am looking for in a record: I want the phrasing and
> notation of Kind of Blue by Miles Davis meets the sounds from Las Vegas
> by Berger Ink. A record that goes beyond grabbing a jazz snippet and
> looping it, something with heavy programming.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike
>
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> http://homes.arealcity.com/Intermodal/index.html
> http://www.mp3.com/TheMSProject
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