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1997-04-23 01:56Alex ReynoldsOn Tue, 22 Apr 1997 idm-digest-owner@hyperreal.com wrote: > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:44:0

From:: Alex Reynolds <polygon@jhu.edu>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:56:41 -0400
Subject:: (idm) Re: idm V1 #1074

On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 idm-digest-owner@hyperreal.com wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:44:05 -0500 > From: "Mark Bowen" <mb@gettins.bche.uic.edu> > Subject: (idm) DJing isn't high art > > Djing is great. I do it. I love to do it and hear it done. Its art in the > sense that collage making is art or flower arranging is art. You aren't > creating much, just rearranging whats already done. Sometime its nice but its > too easy.

Isn't 'original', non-sampled music sourced from rearranged noise? Does this mean that the degree of rearrangement is the only indicator of quality? I don't think it does. I think that the creation itself is the only indicator of its quality, not some arbitrary, subjective evaluation such as 'degree.' It's all noise, after all. Some of it more pleasant than others. Alex

1997-04-23 07:10Seofon>BANDULU >hayes > >and live performance by > >JACK ACID And my sincere regrets to anyone w

From:: Seofon <seofon@wco.com>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:10:43 -0700
Subject:: (idm) Re: idm V1 #1074

quoted 6 lines BANDULU

>BANDULU >hayes > >and live performance by > >JACK ACID

And my sincere regrets to anyone who missed Alec Empire and the DHR crew for $3 at Madness last night. It was incredibly enjoyable the way that scene in Lost Highway where the guy gets buried to the pituitary in a glass table is funny. He started with a mix of ultra-fast stuff ... it's hard to identify particular tracks, since the beat and/or tempo changed every fifteen seconds or so ... and slowed down (to save us all coronaries) to some slower but blisteringly noisy passages, scattering ATR tracks and announcements throughout. Gotta love those Germans! He was followed by a stunning and floor-clearing live p.a. by Shizuo(?). Considerably more abstract ... killer breaks would swirl in but then mysteriously vanish under a barrage of buzzes, distorted samples, and semi-rhythmic noise bursts. IDM? If you can dance to this stuff, you must be in Mensa. Beautiful. Bandulu dropped in, but apparently Alec's not quite their cup of tea. =) Anyway, I don't know how long Alec's in the States for ... but keep your eyes open! --Seofon

(idm) Re: idm V1 #1074