Except that you?ll have to change "she" to "he" in 99 cases of 100....
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From : Josh Davison <yoshi@enteract.com>
To : idm@hyperreal.org
Date : 08 September 2000 16:42:15
Subject : Re: [idm] who sounds like whom
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, cranket . wrote:
quoted 49 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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