the future of IDM?
given the lack of distribution/audience/venues/etc. what do people really
mean by The Future?
the aesthetic evolution of the music? certainly there has been a fairly
step-by-step complication into irrational subdivision, initiated by either
the advent of sequencers (Logic) that can quantize to 196th note triplets,
or non-lattice constructive methods using fractions of time, abandoning
meter all together (though this is on the extreme and some might begin to
question how IDM something is if they can never find a strong beat as
opposed to a few weaker ones). frankly, if one wants to play ones music
within the context, broad as it may be, of dance-electronica, one either
references that cannonized form or must abandon it and find a new context
with which to present one's creative output.
a prime example of this effect is Anthony Braxton, who brought the methods
of Stockhausen, et. al, into the world of Jazz in a very personal way -
He found some sucess and toured with his quartets/quintets/etc. and was
even supported by Arista Freedom until he wrote a composition for three
orchestras playing in swivelly office chairs - anyway, in the past
thirty years the man has found himself with no context except odd-fitting
improvised music / free-jazz festivals in europe - how is this related
to IDM? how can people except a genre that generated itself from a
perfomative dance context to survive and evolve without a new performative
context ? is the new context each of our individual bedrooms - to be
listened to alone and discussed via electronic communications only, and
maybe with a few friends in the area who are also interested in the same
General area of sounds ? this seems like a dead end to me unless one
acknowledges this as the context and then writes music for that
specifically. until this issue of context is sorted out there is only a
blurry future. i hope others have some ideas for how to evolve this
situation. what about Rural IDM ? ? :)
micah silver
micahsilver.org
musicapopular.micahsilver.org
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