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> From: Thomas Millar [mailto:tmillar@mbayweb.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 11:51 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] Trivia questions
>
>
> I tend to think of "Intelligent Dance Music" as a term that strictly
> applies to the music itself and not to the people that listen to it. I
> mean, duh. I don't even have a college degree!
>
> So imagine a genre entirely comprised of recordings that think for
> themselves and illustrate their disdain for us fleshy mortals by being
> generally inaccessible except to a peculiar community of argumentative
> and opinionated people with strange beards and weird taste in cars/snack
> food/album covers.
>
> Artists have always talked about how the sculpture is already in the
> stone before they even begin chipping away, or how the painting is on
> the canvas before a brush has been dipped in paint- they just
> materialize out of the ether an image, or a sound, or a shape that
> was/is/and always will be there. Muses are immortal, we are not.
>
> Perhaps the mechanization of the music-making process (and the resulting
> higher frequency of 'happy accidents' that have always plagued people
> trying to be willfully creative) has finally resulted in music that more
> or les composes itself, with the occasional bit of guidance or intent
> being applied by glorified mastering engineers that we on this list
> label 'musicians'.
> I mean, who's to say what the difference is between an 808 misfiring on
> random fill and Taylor Deupree carefully tuning a .25 sec loop?
> Certainly not this jaded crowd.
>
> Ghost in the machine, man. It's like the glowing car in Repo Man. You
> just get in and it takes you places.
>
> So it's the music that's elitist. Don't blame yourself. You're just
> another victim.
>
> Don't have any idea what 'hypno' is, except to venture that it's a
> variation on what I just rambled on about above, possibly involving less
> intelligent machinery as opposed to, say, PowerBooks.
>
> Tom
>
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