At 04:27 PM 1/20/2003 -0800, you wrote:
quoted 10 lines Well in that same interview they spoke about thier
>Well in that same interview they spoke about thier
>recording techniques, (for Confield) and a lot of the
>random generation process, and how they keep thier
>machines running these algorithms and spitting out
>tracks, and then they go through the output and maybe
>use 1% of what comes out and very little final editing
>goes into it. Which as an idea is really great and
>fascinating, and it definnitley takes some smarts to
>do that, but I fail to hear the beauty in it that
>other people do.quoted 17 lines Maybe I haven't had the patience to
> Maybe I haven't had the patience to
>really listen to it enough to enjoy it. Maybe it's
>like one of those posters those computer generated 3d
>posters that you need to cross your eyes a certain way
>to see the hidden image, and maybe I'm not crossing my
>ears in the right way. Props to you for bieng able to
>hear something else than I am hearing, I don't find
>fault in people for liking or hearing something in
>music that I care for, including the hordes of
>Chemical Brothers and Underworld fans, or people who
>like Van Halen, Rod Stewart or any of the music out
>there that I can't stand. Having said that, what level
>of concern for the listener is neccessary when you are
>making and releasing music, for what reason do you
>make music other than for someone other than yourself
>to listen to it? And if for your own pleasure, what
>difference between that and wankery?