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> From: Aaron D Meyers [mailto:adm226@nyu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:08 PM
>
> Yea... we've all experienced at least a dozen threads about how much
> the acronym IDM sucks, but I think using the word "experimental" in any
> way to describe a genre is equally sucky. It seems to insinuate that
> the process this music was created in was somehow haphazard and
> aimless. Like these musicians just screwed around without a concept in
> mind. I dunno.
Scientific experiments are usually very controlled, with a specific concept
(a hypothesis) very much in mind. I don't know where your concept of
"experimental" came from, but that's what I've always thought of when I
heard the word.
-adam
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