I love the Velvet Underground and Nico.
--AL
quoted 66 lines From: Adam Piontek <adam@damek.org>
>From: Adam Piontek <adam@damek.org>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] Nic Endo in Grooves#7
>Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:31:43 -0800 (PST)
>
>--- EggyToast <youn0394@umn.edu> wrote:
> > Besides, who looks at people when they're listening
> > to music? I listen to
> > music at home. She's obviously talking about a live
> > experience, which, in
> > Atari Teenage Riot terms, isn't anything to write
> > home about. "hey look,
> > they're screaming again! woo!"
>
>I'm not at all familiar with ATR, but it seems to me
>that anyone's inability to live up to their own
>opinions about the way things should be doesn't at all
>invalidate their opinions. In art, practice may never
>live up to theory, but unlike science, this doesn't
>discount the theory.. it just suggests that perhaps a
>different practice might be required to achieve the
>desired results.
>
>Some cultures can get insanely into their rituals,
>with music and theatre and going into trances and
>shit, but the same stuff likely wouldn't produce the
>same effect on me. This doesn't mean that I couldn't
>have the same sort of experience, just that it would
>take something else to get to it.
>
> > on a related note, I'd like to see how many people
> > honestly think that
> > people who perform with laptops create music using
> > just that laptop. I
> > wonder if they're the same people who think Britney
> > Spears plays all her
> > own instruments.
>
>I don't really care about this issue one iota. No
>more than I care about whether technology can make
>emotional music. Any technology can make emotional
>music relevant to humans if there are humans driving
>the technology...
>
>This is all irrelevant, I feel, to the comment, which,
>when I read it in my copy, I thought it was completely
>about the way the music is presented and not about the
>music alone or the "artist" involved. Having a drink
>and looking at a nerd doesn't mean it's the nerd part
>of the system that is wrong...
>
>
>=====
>.Adam
>http://www.damek.org/
>
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