From: Kent williams <kent@avalon.net>
quoted 6 lines I don't know. Mozart was all about economy of means. The first movement
> I don't know. Mozart was all about economy of means. The first movement
> of 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' has about 2 measures of thematic material
> that he runs through every sort of inversion, modulation, reversal, etc.
> It used to drive me nuts to play in orchestra because there was so little
> there, and you don't get the gestalt when you're sitting on stage.
> We're lucky Mozart wasn't around for arpeggiators and drum machines
because
quoted 1 line he'd have turned out 10 times as much material.
> he'd have turned out 10 times as much material.
Yeah, but then you wouldn't have had to play it, eh :-)
quoted 6 lines Making music is hard work, and the pay is lousy. The only reason anyone
> Making music is hard work, and the pay is lousy. The only reason anyone
> keeps doing it long enough to get to the point of being interviewed and
> quoted is because they do music as a compulsion -- it's a process that
> feeds their souls. Someday it may, in some way, pay off. Or maybe not.
> Part and parcel of being consumed by music is that you may actually listen
> to stuff that regular people can't stand and take some enjoyment and
guidance
quoted 1 line from it.
> from it.
Ideally this is true. I'm a bit peeved at the moment because the Irish
airwaves are flooded with a techno version of Karl Orff's 'O fortuna' (the
music used in the Old Spice surf ad)...some enterprising young buck simply
put a 4-4 kick/hat combination under it, and now he is being photographed
for interviews in front of 48-track SSL consoles, hailed as an innovator,
blah blah...vomit.
OK, in 6 months everyone will have forgotten about it, but I admit it gets
up my nose a bit. Not least because I did the same thing at home a year ago
and wiped the tape in embarrassment the next day :-) What bugs me most
though is that this current hit involved no more programming than making
sure the kick drum started in time with the classical recording. The Orff
recording just plays stright through from start to finish without an edit in
sight, and the kick and hat sounds could have come from just about any cheap
keyboard made in the last decade. No wonder so many people dismiss techno as
'just a beat going round and round'.
Mind you, while I would love to have got the money and gigs the guy is
making off this hit, I'd have to wear a paper bag on my head and tape my
mouth shut in order to play along with the resultant hype.
Anig Browl
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