quoted 5 lines there can never such a thing as too much creation. all it will do is> there can never such a thing as too much creation. all it will do is
> accelerate the evolution of the state-of-the-art. if everybody grabs a
> laptop and starts sounding like autechre, somebody will eventually
> filter up to the top of the pile, and then everybody will start trying
> to sound like them...quoted 6 lines the problem arises when everybody thinks that the only way to "succeed"> the problem arises when everybody thinks that the only way to "succeed"
> at making music is by finding the official autechre max patch. it's
> ridiculous ... the american breakbeat compilation is 2 cd's of
> completely undiscernable garbage. the morr music comp has like 3 tracks
> on it that stand out from the rest, and everything else is completely
> interchangable.
Exactly - There are good and bad uses of new technology. It's very easy to
point the finger at "DSP jackoff technology", but really it's nothing more
than unimaginative artists. I'm glad Max/MSP/Reactor came around just so I
could listen to music in the vein of Cathars & Microstoria. Even if dozens
adopt the technology who I don't care for - I just won't buy their
releases. (not so hard)
Re: "Putting the Morr.." The fact that the only artist I could recognize
from the Morr Music comp was Solvent - and even there were one or two I
thought were also Solvent - was dissapointing. I enjoy a few Morr artists
greatly (Fleischmann, etc.) but the comp tracks really weren't their
strongest. IMO, the 2xCD was really a wash compared to other recent strong
compilations, eg Sonig.
Andrew
-| Andrew Schrock | aschrock@cs.brandeis.edu |-
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