On Fri, 4 May 2001, Topher wrote:
quoted 3 lines "conceptual approach"... Some artists just have no ideas so it's> "conceptual approach"... Some artists just have no ideas so it's
> easier to make rubbish and say it's art (I'm thinking Vladislav
> Delay, Oval, SND, Terre Thaemlitz, Kid 606, etc... ) - and I think
This statement is kind of funny, inasmuch as "conceptual" sort of implies
that the ideas are more important than details of execution (so how can
you have conceptual art without ideas?). Then again, I suppose you have a
narrower definition of "ideas".
At any rate, I'm not a big fan of any of the above except for Oval, whose
records keep getting better and better. In a way, Popp has been doing for
years what Autechre are starting to cotton onto- developing real time
environments for making music loosely parameterized by live inputs. From
Dok on, his records have been remarkably dense and interesting throughout.
Note that David Tudor and Roland Kayn spent decades on this approach with
analog gear (to different results).
-rob
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