quoted 2 lines I'm hoping it's not because musical 'training' closes> > I'm hoping it's not because musical 'training' closes
> > peoples' ears/minds...
I only wish more musicians would learn how to play their shit. Not just
in IDM, but music in general. In related news, I think the MC303 is a
bad idea, because it encourages more of the "I don't need to know
anything about making music in order to make music" mentality... the
teenage garage punk pop thing all over again. If and when I ever make
any music that I'll release, it will be after I have learned to play my
instruments VERY well and write good, complicated music. I feel so many
instruments, these great, rarefied, expensive analog things used by many
IDM people, are SO underutilized in the music. Listening to Wendy
Carlos' stuff and then comparing it to most IDM leaves me wishing that
more artists would get some classical training. You can do so much with
synthis though... I mean all you need is a DX7 or a Prophecy or
something and you have almost unlimited sound creation possibilities at
your disposal, and yet almost invariably artists of this genre limit
themselves to a few simple chord progressions and timbres/effects when
so much poetential is there...