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BEGIN QUOTE FROM Troy Sheets: : : "Stamping out techno's droning beat" : : -reprinted without permission from the Friday, April : 7th addition of USC's Daily Trojan's Viewpoint : Section. : : Techno music has been the trendy musical rage for : awhile. You've all heard it at clubs, radio stations, : and bar mitzvahs, and like all trends, it is finally : starting to die off. Why it has lasted as long as it : has is something that has baffled this mind for a long : time. I have yet to see why a bunch of computer- : generated sounds clumped together with a driving : rhythm are categorized as music, and am glad to see : that music is finally going back to what I classify as : "real" music. Obviously, this writer has been exposed to a very limited amount of "techno". I would agree with her if I had never heard of Mad Mike or Derrick May or... too many to list. -- fix.er \'fik-s*r\ n : one that fixes : as : one that intervenes to enable a person to circumvent the law or obtain a political favor : one that adjusts matters or disputes by negotiation Robert Smith: fixer@d2.com 310/314-2920 310/314-2866(fax) 310/501-3279(pager) Digital Domain: 300 Rose Ave, Venice, CA 90291 310/314-2800 310/314-2888(fax)

Dear Robert, I think that you are correct. I think that Rave music and as far as that goes Raves, are THE SHIT!!! I think that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I think that whoever wrote that crap before was wrong and we are right!!! On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Robert Smith wrote:

quoted 33 lines BEGIN QUOTE FROM Troy Sheets:

> BEGIN QUOTE FROM Troy Sheets: > : > : "Stamping out techno's droning beat" > : > : -reprinted without permission from the Friday, April > : 7th addition of USC's Daily Trojan's Viewpoint > : Section. > : > : Techno music has been the trendy musical rage for > : awhile. You've all heard it at clubs, radio stations, > : and bar mitzvahs, and like all trends, it is finally > : starting to die off. Why it has lasted as long as it > : has is something that has baffled this mind for a long > : time. I have yet to see why a bunch of computer- > : generated sounds clumped together with a driving > : rhythm are categorized as music, and am glad to see > : that music is finally going back to what I classify as > : "real" music. > > Obviously, this writer has been exposed to a very limited > amount of "techno". I would agree with her if I had never > heard of Mad Mike or Derrick May or... too many to list. > > > -- > fix.er \'fik-s*r\ n : one that fixes : as : one that intervenes to enable a > person to circumvent the law or obtain a political favor : one that adjusts > matters or disputes by negotiation > > Robert Smith: fixer@d2.com 310/314-2920 310/314-2866(fax) 310/501-3279(pager) > Digital Domain: 300 Rose Ave, Venice, CA 90291 310/314-2800 310/314-2888(fax) > >

please oh please oh please.....before 1 million messages spawn from this post....everybody knows the guy was an idiot blah blah blah enough.... stop. No more. i'm scared. J

So what is music? Look in the dictionary and you will find the differences between "music", "sound" and "noise" have mostly to do with subjective judgements. Is the word "music" reserved for only certain kinds of art whose medium is sound? Is there another sound art? If you cannot classify techo, et al, as "music", you need to move your goalposts. If you are dancing at a rave, or standing in the middle of the forest, or in the middle of the busiest intersection of a large city, and you cannot hear music around you--well, the sounds don't need to change, only your perception of them.

quoted 19 lines On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Robert Smith wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Robert Smith wrote: > > > BEGIN QUOTE FROM Troy Sheets: > > : > > : "Stamping out techno's droning beat" > > : > > : -reprinted without permission from the Friday, April > > : 7th addition of USC's Daily Trojan's Viewpoint > > : Section. > > : > > : I have yet to see why a bunch of computer- > > : generated sounds clumped together with a driving > > : rhythm are categorized as music, and am glad to see > > : that music is finally going back to what I classify as > > : "real" music. > > > > Obviously, this writer has been exposed to a very limited > > amount of "techno". I would agree with her if I had never > > heard of Mad Mike or Derrick May or... too many to list.

Dear Mark, No, music is not reserved for only certain kinds of art whose medium is sound. It could be classified as noise ifd you want it to but music should please each person as do foods to picky eaters. Good music is whatever people want it to be... On Sat, 8 Apr 1995, Mark Kolmar wrote:

quoted 33 lines So what is music? Look in the dictionary and you will find the differences

> So what is music? Look in the dictionary and you will find the differences > between "music", "sound" and "noise" have mostly to do with subjective > judgements. Is the word "music" reserved for only certain kinds of art > whose medium is sound? Is there another sound art? > > If you cannot classify techo, et al, as "music", you need to move your > goalposts. > > If you are dancing at a rave, or standing in the middle of the forest, or > in the middle of the busiest intersection of a large city, and you cannot > hear music around you--well, the sounds don't need to change, only your > perception of them. > > > On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Robert Smith wrote: > > > > > BEGIN QUOTE FROM Troy Sheets: > > > : > > > : "Stamping out techno's droning beat" > > > : > > > : -reprinted without permission from the Friday, April > > > : 7th addition of USC's Daily Trojan's Viewpoint > > > : Section. > > > : > > > : I have yet to see why a bunch of computer- > > > : generated sounds clumped together with a driving > > > : rhythm are categorized as music, and am glad to see > > > : that music is finally going back to what I classify as > > > : "real" music. > > > > > > Obviously, this writer has been exposed to a very limited > > > amount of "techno". I would agree with her if I had never > > > heard of Mad Mike or Derrick May or... too many to list. >