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Dave Walker wrote:

quoted 13 lines On Wed, 2 Feb 1994, David Kelly wrote:

> > > > On Wed, 2 Feb 1994, David Kelly wrote: > >> i really think the Next Big Thing (TM) will be some combination of >> ambient and dance in the same song.. example: song starts very ambient, >> builds slowly, slowly, slowly, until it's built up into a driving very >> danceable song - over the time of about 20 minutes.. > You just described "Gravitational Arch of 10" :) . > > | Dave Walker, Detroit Art Services (DAS) | >

Actually, anybody remember the Orb's 40-minute Blue Room? Over the first 15-or-so minutes it does exactly this, building slowly to finally encompass a very danceable beat. Everything fits in very nicely. However, what it does after this sort of drags everything out. Anyway, a successful example from more than a year ago. Personally, I think the "next big thing" will be further refinement of the microscopic levels, such as more "organic" sounds and increasing compositional complexity. Especially since the most basic stuff can almost be generated algorithmically - if this becomes commonplace, this will free more energy for other developments, stuff you can layer over the algorithms. Just a thought... /-oOOo------------oOOo-\ --------------------------/------------------------\-------------------------- "the only constant / Harvey D. Thornburg \ "the only certainty thing is change" / \ is uncertainty" / hthornbu@osiris.ac.hmc.edu \ ------------------------------------------------------------