You've summed it up pretty well there to me, I went through a stage of
making a lot of this sort of stuff and can't explain why I went through
that phase. Angst or something.. ? :)
quoted 61 lines Please elaborate on what you find worthwhile about Industrial Folksongs..>>Please elaborate on what you find worthwhile about Industrial Folksongs..
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>Industrial Folk Songs belongs to a pan-genre categoy of Extreme Music.
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>What is extreme music? It's any music that takes something that audiences
>generally don't like, isolate it and magnify it.
>
>When Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were formulating Be-Bop, many
>listeners complained that it was too fast, random, and obtuse. But they
>weren't concerned with satisfying listeners expectations honed by Glenn
>Miller and Tommy Dorsey. They were pursuing their own style, making music
>that expressed what they felt inside.
>
>Jimi Hendrix took the sound that most electric guitarists of his day sought
>to avoid -- distorted, overdriven, noisy. He made that the core of how
>he played.
>
>Sonic Youth formed a career around taking the crazy difficult part of
>Hendrix's
>playing -- the feedback and soupy effects upon effects -- and left his
>more melodic, lyrical playing out. The result was to redefine the aesthetic
>-- work with something ugly until you can make it beautiful if you can
>find a new way of listening.
>
>Bob Mould in an interview described early Husker Du shows, where at the
>end of the set they'd play one note, over and over again until half of the
>audience left. The result was to let the audience self-sort, so that
>only the people who were really with the band were left.
>
>I attended a Philip Glass Ensemble concert here in Iowa City in the late 70s
>where half the audience left at intermission. The same effect -- everyone
>who came because it was part of a classical subscription series without
>knowing what to expect were gone, and the remainder of the audience were
>well up for what he had to offer.
>
>Industrial Folk Songs fits this strategy. I remember before it came out,
>Grant from Rephlex got onto IDM and hyped it as something entirely new.
>For it's time it was -- even as it partook of influences from industrial
>music, gabber and US Drop-Bass hardcore. He deliberately worked with a
>pallete
>of sounds that were harsh and ugly. These were not tracks that met you
>half way -- you had to go all the way to where they were in order to get it.
>
>Now if you aren't (in the hip hop parlance) feeling it, it's not any
>disrespect to you. Everyone should really listen to what speaks to their
>condition. It is simply music that makes no concessions to the audience.
>There is beauty to be found there, but the music formulates its own
>aesthetic, instead of fitting into an existing aesthetic.
>
>Either you'll like it or you won't. Give it a chance, though and
>you may come to respect it and see what it's about.
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>kent williams -- kent@avalon.net
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