quoted 8 lines From: MilkAlive@aol.com
>From: MilkAlive@aol.com
>To: shimone@staticbeats.com, idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] Hrvatski
>Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 20:37:59 EDT
>
>Go away and come back and let us know when you've come to the adult
>realization that the world holds many varieties of listening experiences
>aside from 'pleasant', you vanilla wafer head.
perhaps "aestically pleasing" would be better than just "pleasing"...?
what.s the general consensus on the age you have to be to be an adult
anyway? 21? i guess i don.t qualify then.
mmmmmmmmmm...vanilla wafers...[drool]
i listened to this hrvatski track, and i really enjoy it much...i.d say that
it is very musical. i think that these days...if it doesn.t have a
definable beat...and at least one or two notes to be heard...you might as
well just shove it in the closet...
everything is musical...it.s all in how you hear and percieve it
though...it.s really a relative term...musical to what?...perhaps a
definition of the most musical peice you.ve ever heard is what is called
for? no. because there is none...there is music everywhere...it.s just not
structured neatly like the songs neatly contained on a cd or whatever
medium...take a while and listen to your day...listen to it as "musically"
as you possibly can...detached from what you percieve it as. because,
things are not musical because we make them so...or we think it so.
"nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (hamlet)" take, for
instance, your day...going to school, what have you...and listen to is as it
were not...take voices as just sounds, not structured words...just audible
tones. detach yourself from the defined musical variations that you come so
accustomed to hearing contained on a various media. and when you listen to
it...it starts making sense...perhaps not in structure, like a perfectly
midi synced composition, but an iprovisational representation of the
unstructured nature of your day. everything is musical...music is
everywhere.
the thing i don.t like very much about someone accusing something as being
not musical is that there is always someone out there that likes it...and
that thinks it to be "musical". and what of the artist? surly the creator
enjoys it...or is making some sort of statement through it that one is to
interpret. except maybe someone like XXX XXX, saying something like :f**k
the listener. i.ll put a peice of turd on a record and they'll buy it.:
but then they.re still making a statement..."f**k you"
however this is not to say that we are not able to have our opinions about
the "music", or if we so believe lack of "music" we hear. no, but perhaps
what it is is that some are a little frank and brutal in their critisims. i
especially don.t think that i would ever tell an artist that i thought that
their work was "horrible" even if i thought that it was...they put pride and
effort into their work...ok, some more than others.... but if it is to be
assumed that most artists are putting their heart into their work, and be a
little less brutal in our critisims, and look a little more deeper into the
peice, and discuss the peice a little more in an intelligent manner, then,
well maybe something will turn out a little better...somewhere.
or maybe i.m just being a little na?ve and optomistic. more than likely i
am. but then bookshelf 98 (? microsoft) calls music "an aesthetically
pleasing or harmonious sound or combination of sounds: the music of the wind
in the pines." well that just about sums it up...idm? aestically
pleasing...some would believe otherwise...what is idm anyway? ah well,
topic for another day.
have a better one
lander
np: hab:: save the adults (dot)
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