----- Original Message -----
From: Colin King-Bailey <ckingbai@ucsd.edu>
To: Stevie <stevie@ignition.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] Re: missing: romanticism
quoted 1 line yeah, i think you're getting back to the whole poetry thing that someone> yeah, i think you're getting back to the whole poetry thing that someone
in
quoted 2 lines this thread was talking about. i think the sound of a human voice carries> this thread was talking about. i think the sound of a human voice carries
> more emotion than electronic sounds tend to, or ultimately can. and i
think
quoted 9 lines the cultural tradition and the organacy (organicness?) of a guitar band> the cultural tradition and the organacy (organicness?) of a guitar band
> carry emotion, too.
>
> Colin
>
> > There's plenty of IDM around with emotional content (Mu-Ziq - 'Balsa
> > Lightning'; Biosphere - 'Sphere Of No Form'; for examples) and there's
> heaps
> > with energy...but that's not enough. It's relatively easy to create
music
quoted 15 lines with emotion and energy, it's harder to really hold the listener's> > with emotion and energy, it's harder to really hold the listener's
> interest
> > for 10 minutes...the ultimate challenge is to be able to program music
> with
> > soul. A live band like Queen (or Prince when he did Sexy MF) have soul
> > oozing out of their pores. There's something that happens when music is
> > programmed and it isn't to do with quantization or conversion from
> analogue
> > to digital. I don't know why, but for me...somehow it seems to lose its
> > soul.
> >
> > Maybe I'm not explaining myself properly...does anybody see what I'm
> trying
> > to get at?
>
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