On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Reading, John wrote:
quoted 12 lines I think he's just jealous>
> > I think he's just jealous
> > because he could never make Go Plastic and his generative tracks
> > probably don't hold a candle to Confield.
>
> LOL!
>
> seriously though, I think Eno is generalizing way too much, however;
> it's nice to hear a dismissal of electronic music from the completely
> polar opposite of the tired "but it's not live" or "it's all just
> computers."
>
I wonder just how much computer generated music he's heard. And he misjudges
how the best practitioners use the tools. What he says describes perfectly
things like BT's work with Britney and Boy Bands. Eno described his
modus operandi about as well as BT did himself recently in 'Keyboard
Magazine.'
But there are people (Kid606 comes to mind) that aren't satisfied with
how they've built a track unless it's susceptible to multiple gestural
inputs that interact in unpredictable ways. The music ends up barely
under control of the musician, and it could go hideously wrong at any
moment.
And some of Kit Clayton's stuff has the same chaotic edge to it.
Just as walking is a form of controlled falling, his tracks illustrate how
machinery threatening to fall apart can be form of dancing.
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