yeah, i've noticed that everyone i work with is always trying to record things in different ways and it always just ends up sounding like bad micro-sound. Like the other day i was using a mic-preamp thats supposed to be used on vocals for a drum because it doesn't pick up much sound from a source that is far away so i kind of had this gated drum going, after listening to it I decided it just sounded like a basement punk band with a copy of Acid.
Kent Williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com> wrote:Innovation == experimentation that works.
Most experiments fail.
Sometimes not until after the fact, do you realize they failed. The
difference between innovations and failed experiments is determined
after the fact when, strictly speaking, they're old news.
An innovation can be a new technique or strategy that bears
exploration. Said explorations aren't innovations.
As listeners, you can A) seek out and listen to only the innovations,
or B) Listen to music that makes you feel good regardless of the
source.
Aphex Twin is (still) occasionally brilliant, but is perhaps too
willing to put out underproduced, demo-quality tracks, for his own
reasons. Largely I think because he's been put in a position where the
money he gets for his music is independent of the music's quality.
He's just a bloke from Cornwall that was extraordinarily lucky that
his talents, haphazardly applied, have allowed him to avoid actual
work his entire adult life.
I'd be interested to hear what he comes up with if he starts really
caring, and manages to devote sustained effort to making the best
music he can imagine.
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