Re: (idm) Pitch up, pitch down, pitch all round...
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quoted 10 lines well, i don't think guitar, or voices, or I IV V were *designed* to be>well, i don't think guitar, or voices, or I IV V were *designed* to be
>recorded backwards, either, but it sure sounds good sometimes, doesn't it?
>john lennon obviously thought so. i don't think quentin tarantino meant to
>have ezekiel 25:17 (sp?) incorporated into a jungle track either, but to
>some artists it sounded appropriate. regardless of my 4am analogies, when
>an artist releases something to be consumed/evaluated to the public, they
>allow it to be open to different interpretations. mixing tracks together or
>playing the music at the wrong speed is one person's way of interpreting a
>song. music or art isn't 'designed' for any singular holy purpose. it's
>what you individually make of it.
Precisely. While arguably the whole of techno music as it is in the modern
age rests on the ability to take something that already exists (a record, a
sound, a sample) and transform it, via technology, into something entirely
new, or to use instruments in ways never "intended" by their designers
(example: tb303); I was merely stating that records do have speeds that
they were "designed" to be played at regardless, and if someone were to ask
for such a speed, were it not printed on the record, we shouldn't all get
into fights over which one "sounds better" in replying to such a person, as
was the case recently. Which speed sounds better is an entirely subjective
issue, I would think, whereas the actual speed of the recording would be a
purely objective one. I am not opposed to playing records at whatever
speed, backwards, sideways, etc. for creative purposes (I do realise fully
that this is the very essence of the art of dj'ing, and that's great, fine,
alright), or cos it sounds better or whatever... if that were the case, I
wouldn't be into this kind of music, now, would I? I'd be some trad rocker
or jazz purist or something... ugh.
You are right when you say it is whatever you make of it. Classical music
does and has alays been interpreted individually by its conductors who
speed it up, slow it down, modify it, turn it backwards (jus kidding), and
do al sorts of "unintended" things... kind of like what dj's do now, eh?