On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, cranket . wrote:
quoted 3 lines point is they all resemble autechre in some way, much like a rock band
> point is they all resemble autechre in some way, much like a rock band
> resembles other rock bands in some way, what differences can be found is who
> is creating good songs.
exactly.
the thing that you people jumping all over these bands for "sounding like
autechre" have to realize is that what you are picking up on in many cases
is just the fact that they use the same tools and techniques to create the
music. every guitar player that uses a Big Muff pedal on a solo "sounds
like Hendrix"
of course any band as influential as autechre are going to have other
musicians take away some of that influence. it's called evolution. some
of you on this list might have heard of it. the first cro-magnon who
figured out how to make a spear probably showed it to another cro-magnon,
who recognized it as a good technique and *GASP* copied it. perhaps you
noticed how much influence mozart took from bach. or how much Georges
Braques and Picasso's early works resemble eachother. Or how Microsoft
Windows copied MacOS who copied some experimental Xerox UI. Or how every
major auto manufacturer copied Henry Ford's assembly line production
model.
now consider a young upstart electronic musician. she has been listening
to "IDM" for a while and now she wants to make some. Now she's got some
gear and she's read the instruction manuals but still has no idea how to
use it artistically. So she sets about trying to come up with something
that sounds familiar to her. Derivative or not, she is now making music
that sounds good to her. Eventually, as her skills evolve the music starts
sounding less and less like that of other artists and more and more like
her own personal style.
This is a regular part of the process of artistic evolution and should be
recognized as such.
-Josh
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