On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, somrux wrote:
quoted 3 lines Once again, it all comes down to a matter of taste. If we all had the same> Once again, it all comes down to a matter of taste. If we all had the same
> opinions, well...It'd be a pretty boring place to live, eh?
>
Well I don't want to get salty about it. I just hear something different,
and in some respects I'm LISTENING for something different.
quoted 3 lines His new release sounds like old stuff + 5% playing around with a few new> His new release sounds like old stuff + 5% playing around with a few new
> things. Again, opinion only.
>
Going back to sound design versus composition -- the new tracks sound
superficially like tracks we've heard from him before. But they have new
and different melodic content, different structural dynamics, etc. Bach
wrote a lot of Cantatas for choir, something like 2 a month for years. Each
one was for the same choir and small ensemble, and they were all rigorously
structured. If you listen to two at random for the first time they'll sound
like the same thing. If you listen to them long enough to get to know them,
they will sound completely different.
I mean really! If something is 'music' then it inhabits a fairly limited
state space, if it's going to appeal to an audience at all. You always
need a balance of familiar and novel elements to keep a listener's interest.
Sure, you can choose something deliberately to be novel, and unpleasant.
If you're an artist, though, the music that comes out is a thing meant to
affect a listener with something of the artist's mood and intent.
I dunno, I hear something in these tracks -- especially the best of them --
is a lot of intention, subtle sonic manipulation, and attempts towards an
unconventional, but euphonius harmony.
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