I think what everyone is missing in this discussion is that Eno is not
talking about IDM or electronic music exclusively, he is talking about
computer based production of music. I remember an anecdote from and article
earlier this year about an installation he had done in a museum. It
described very accurately I think what he expressed in the article that
started this thread.
Eno was in a recording studio where someone was producing and album (I
don't think they said exactly whose album or what he was doing on it), and
the producers have this guitarist come in one day for a song where they
needed some guitar. So the guitarist is in the studio, tuning up.
Unbeknownst to him, the sound engineer was recording the sounds of him
tuning his guitar. When the kid finished tuning up, the sound guy said that
they didn't need him anymore as they could recreate his part from what he
had just recorded on to the computer. Eno apparently flew off the handle. I
think these are the sort of things he is referring to when he describes
computer music as emotionless or too technical.
-- forel
elitist fuck
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