quoted 5 lines I think part of this "I hate DSP wankery" depends on what sort of ear> I think part of this "I hate DSP wankery" depends on what sort of ear
> you have for noise. If noise is noise is noise to you, then a lot of
> heavily processed Max/DSP-produced stuff will probably sound similar
> and boring. On the other hand, if noise is just unrecognized music to
> you, then it's a lot more exciting.
I'm not sure. I quite like noise. I don't think all of the people who are ambivalent towards DSPery are merely objecting to the lack of big obvious melodies. The problem that I personally have with some[1] of the heavily processed stuff around at the moment is that it makes an impressive number of parameter changes per second its main feature, and enables people to try to keep your interest by repeating the same idea over and over again with a different 17 plugins every time, rather than by writing something that develops dramatically in an interesting way.
The comparison to the introduction of drum machines doesn't really hold up - if you like electronic music at all, you'd be forced to admit that programming dense glitch-hoppery is pretty technically intense. Probably a better analogy would be to the Steve Vai-esque fretwankers, or to the sillier end of slap bass, where technical skill and speed are worshipped at the expense of everything else.[2] Whereas if you're Jimi Hendrix or Charlie Parker or (for my money) Autechre you can be technical and musical, and everyone wins.
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[1] but far from all. Some of it I love.
[2] I'm probably going to get savaged by outraged Steve Vai fans now...
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