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(idm) Classical v IDM/Ligeti

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1999-11-02 16:00kurt (idm) Classical v IDM/Ligeti
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1999-11-02 16:00kurt>IDM and Classical music have much in common. I think you'd have to narrow that down a lit
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(idm) Classical v IDM/Ligeti
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quoted 1 line IDM and Classical music have much in common.>IDM and Classical music have much in common.
I think you'd have to narrow that down a little bit. "Classical music" = hundreds of years of music with an enormous variety of styles and approaches during that time. Is the Shitkatapult compilation more like "Tristan und Isolde" or Beethoven's late quartets? One "classical" recording stikes me as probably being of interest to a lot of IDM people, and that's Gyorgi Ligeti's Music for Mechanical Instruments. I think Ligeti's idea of 'broken machine music' is not far from, for instance, Autechre's aesthetic. His compositions and arrangements for barrel organ are quite amazing; a very odd manifestation of "sequencing". Then there's the stridently ambient piece for 100 metronomes... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org