quoted 20 lines Let me pose a question to all the people who make music on this list for a>Let me pose a question to all the people who make music on this list for a
>sec: HOw many times have you finished a tune (or are still in the middle
>of making), go back and listen to it and find things you hadn't heard
>before cus you were too busy creating the music?? I'll be the first to
>admit i have. what with all them crazy filters and process-happenings
>going on! hidden patterns, echos of echos that arrange themselves to form
>small background pockets of patterns between the gaps of the bigger
>patterns. even a totally tranformed song when i start the tune somewhere
>in the middle of the pattern rather than the beginning! I'm going to go
>out on a limb here and say i'm sure AE has had this happened before. But
>it's to the point now that sometimes i feel that they let these little
>processed synth/percussion do all the talking and nothing from the soul a
>little too often for my likings. (sound engineers or musicians?) again,
>it's just making mountains out of molehills by over-scrutinizing these
>swirling masses of clever sounds and drawing what you will from it (which
>can be part of the fun i suppose). ever look in the sky and make out a
>dragon from the cumulus clouds but your friend sees a lion? same type
>thing, but with music. on that front, they've succeeded admirably! but in
>the end, i go back to tunes that sound gorgeous in the big picture as well
>as down to the nitty-gritty.
I don't know.... I personally find Coil's "Worship the Glitch," which, to
me, is based on the "in between" sounds, to have plenty of "soul."
As someone said earlier, though - this music isn't necessarily human. If
you want human music, there's plenty of stuff with lyrics out there that is
just bleeding humanity. I've always liked IDM because you can have
emotions that aren't easy to hear or explain, without having to resort to
controlled substances.
I liken the emotion of, say, Boards of Canada, to sitting on a swing in an
old playground on one of the last warm days of summer. Autechre might be
the emotion that swing feels under yer ass :D
cheers,
/derek
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