brian eno is a bit of a fucker though really, stuff like "the drop" might not
fit a grid, but it downright sucks huh?
steve
Galen Beals wrote:
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> From: ajwells@ix.netcom.com [mailto:ajwells@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 10:13 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: (idm) Re: lets talk equip.
>
> > Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:55:12 +0100 (MET)
> > To: idm@hyperreal.org
> > From: Johan Kotlinski <spleen@darkface.pp.se>
> > Subject: Re: (idm) Re: lets talk equip.
> > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000309003608.4702A-100000@warwick>
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Christophe McKeon wrote:
> >
> > > Computers have mad thingness. They got more thingness' then anythin.
> > > My question: How is a computer not a musical instrument?
>
> Anything can be a musical instrument... that wasnt the point... the
> point was that music is a highly specialized area of working... people
> spend their entire lives designing instruments to be played and that
>
> <snip!>
>
> And Eno has made many good points about how the sequencing environment
> produces music which is welded to the grid, no matter how complex that
> grid may be... as he mentions, you can feel those bars and chunks of
> audio cycling by your ears when you listen to so many records lately,
> and its boring after awhile because your ear tunes out unless it
> perceives a threat (ie a possible change or human inflection or
> mistake)... and he makes another great point about how computers
> separate us from the muscular action necessary to produce acts which
> mean something and have a relation between a sound and the action which
> produced it
>
> A.
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> Ugh! It sounds to me like you need to stop listening to so much "grid" like
> music... Oh! what am I thinking?!! Electronic music IS Grid music!!! Give me
> a break! That's the beauty of it all. That's why I like Electronic music in
> the first place. It's the music of Robots and hyper accelerators. Geez!
>
> -=GB=-
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