On Tue, 11 May 1999, Moonlight wrote:
quoted 5 lines used for a subgenre that includes "lite techno," like Madonna albums. IDM> used for a subgenre that includes "lite techno," like Madonna albums. IDM
> has that damn rephlex/warp/skam concept to it. Is there a large category
> that includes everything from Fila Brazillia and Coldcut to "Rotted One
> Note" to Coil to IDM and ambient and techno/house and jungle yet still
> excludes pop music? Can we invent one?
Experimental electronic music
experimental techno
Don't let others' misuse of a word that you think accurately describes
something keep you from using it. "Experimental" has a dennotation that
is far stronger than any stigma a connotation can suggest. Techno being
described as the original electronic dance music of the late80's/early90's
and experimental being just like the dictionary definition(s). Coming up
with a new hybrid name seems superfluous when most of what you are
listenning to is still 4/4 made on drum boxes and computers/sequencers.
quoted 2 lines (what other meta-genres would>(what other meta-genres would
> have songs written by pictures?),
The "fake" Dr Moolenbeek of Hafler Trio, an experimental electronic music
(maybe called "noise music") supposedly generated pictures from paint
exposed to soundwaves (just a joke, afaict) though that is the reverse
process of what you mentioned.
Also, Conlan Nancarrow drew visually-pleasing lines of punched holes on
player piano rolls starting in the 1950's, so picture-based
sound-generation has a history, imo. He was a bit outside of the
avant-garde/academic music culture (Columbia/university, neo-classical,
theory-based) so he might best be called just "experimental" as well.
Oldnoise-a-loid