I think referring to music as "sequenced" or "quantized" really implies
"pre-sequenced" or "pre-quantized". So yeah, there is always temporal
structure, but the difference is between music where the structure is
determined before the performance, and where the structure - both micro and
macro - comes into existence as the performance occurs.
Matt
At 04:58 PM 4/10/01 -0500, b. fagan wrote:
quoted 34 lines im very curious as to what music you listen to that is not sequenced or>im very curious as to what music you listen to that is not sequenced or
>quantisized. to me this would mean no measures, time signature, etc. but
>it is very possible we are working with different definitions of
>"sequencing", which would screw everything up. would this mean no
>patterns as well? i ask because to me tribal rythms derive their power
>(and very powerful they are!) from their patterns.
>
>On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Josh Bown wrote:
>
> > I was just thinking about what makes all of the music I really love
> > great, and it is because the rythym is supplied by a human being, and
> > not a clock. Sequencing and quantization is terrible, lame, sucks, and
> > sounds awful... When will we break free from the limits of sequenced
> > music and how will it be done? is there any software out there that
> > allows for composition without a sequencer? When will electronic music
> > have the powerful rythyms that are found for example in primitive tribal
> > ritualistic drumming????
> >
> > I am a hipocrite because I use sequencing all the time, but I try like
> > the rest (unsuccessfully) to make it more natural by introducing errors
> > (humainization) but it just isn't the same as natural rythym
> > ideosyncracies because nature isn't random, but chaotic in an
> > emotionally relevant way... computers can only be semi-random and have
> > no emotion at all.....
> >
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