i'm gonna let everyone in on a little secret...
rdj did the piano-type pieces.
tom jenkinson did the rest.
simple as that and it sure does explain alot.
-brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent williams" <kent@avalon.net>
To: "somrux" <bishop@somrux.com>
Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] DRUkqs bitching
quoted 2 lines On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, somrux wrote:> On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, somrux wrote:
> > Once again, it all comes down to a matter of taste. If we all had the
same
quoted 12 lines opinions, well...It'd be a pretty boring place to live, eh?> > 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.
>
> > 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
quoted 1 line one was for the same choir and small ensemble, and they were all> one was for the same choir and small ensemble, and they were all
rigorously
quoted 1 line structured. If you listen to two at random for the first time they'll> structured. If you listen to two at random for the first time they'll
sound
quoted 1 line like the same thing. If you listen to them long enough to get to know> like the same thing. If you listen to them long enough to get to know
them,
quoted 5 lines they will sound completely different.> 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.
quoted 5 lines Sure, you can choose something deliberately to be novel, and unpleasant.> 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 --
quoted 10 lines is a lot of intention, subtle sonic manipulation, and attempts towards an> is a lot of intention, subtle sonic manipulation, and attempts towards an
> unconventional, but euphonius harmony.
>
>
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