Hello. me new person type thing.
quoted 4 lines And I go even further than that. Debussy's La Mer, piano works by> And I go even further than that. Debussy's La Mer, piano works by
> Satie and Poulenc really mix in well. I don't know if Aphex Twin
> has even heard Satie, but they share a very similar strategy when it
> comes to using repetition and harmonic progression...
i'd say Satie was the most "plagerised" out of most French artistes.
Especially the cheesy but good Gymnopedies and Gymnosiems (bad spelling I
know...). However, there is such a wealth of Satie stuff out there, stuff
like his pieces for children.. which feature a fucked up line of poetry
running through the printed music.. which isn't to be read aloud, but to be
read internally. He also drew all his manuscripts with illustrations and
different colours, and worked with Picasso (the first ever audio-visual
installation?) and lots of his music works on its own as an early hip-hop
type backing, or fits seemlessly into most modern dance music patterns.
He's also Sonic Youth's no. 1 hero, and mine. mmmm. (He was also..
alledgedly.. suffering from aspergers syndrome). Noice.
One other person who's music fits with the whole IDM thang (but light years
earlier).. is Bartok. lots of fucked up style aphex melodies there. (and
used in Dr. Octagon..) I could also bring up St*ckhausen.. ;D A bit of a
touchy (and pretentious) subject.. !
quoted 6 lines And the concept of DJ mixing can be stretched a lot. Beatmatching is> And the concept of DJ mixing can be stretched a lot. Beatmatching is
> cool when it is possible, but since you can't expect everything to fit
> in a narrow tempo band, it's not a requirement. Again, bringing in the
> beatless stuff introduces a whole new dimension, since they can mix with
> anything. Some of the coolest mixes can come from layering stuff against
> all concept of congruent tempo.
I know it sounds wanky.. but I'm currently obsessed with mixing IDMy things
with Steve Reich's music for 19 musicians. I'm lucky enough to have such an
AMAZING piece of music on vinyl along with some Stockhausen and Boulez
goodies... thanks to my ex-composition teacher getting rid of all her old
vinyl. Stockhausen randomness goes lovely over some nasty DHR type thang,
and I'm just waiting to find a piece which fits with Stravinsky's "dance of
the Adolescents" from the Rite of Spring.. which is so hip-hop it hurts.
God I sound wanky.
-jo-
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