At 10:23 AM 10/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
quoted 5 lines I'm curious -- what does anyone think it means to take music seriously>I'm curious -- what does anyone think it means to take music seriously
>(or not)?
>
>I guess I take music seriously -- but I've never let that stand in the
>way of having a good time with it either!
Me neither. I'm as much into autechre for being intricate as I am into
amon tobin for being cinematic as I am into plaid for being fun and
funky. But what they do sounds like they actually spend time and effort
into producing it, instead of just using a granular synthesis plugin for
the whole track, or generating a melody from the fibonacci sequence.
To me, someone who at least sounds like they're putting an effort into
doing something, even if the thing isn't very new, sounds better than
someone who's just pissin' around.
It's like waiting for the obligatory snare rush in, *ahem*, certain music
styles. If you know where the snare rush is gonna happen, or hell, if you
can even tell that one's coming up, how interesting is that? If you can
second guess the artist without ever hearing their music before, how hard
did they really try?
Of course that changes with each person's experience -- I'm not saying my
impressions work for anyone else. But that's generally how I work.
derek
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