<<its a way to explore new sounds.
and that is the essence of electronic music.>>
I'm sure many producers agree with that, but here's one who doesn't:
"Remember, I didn't turn to the electronic medium for 'new sounds.'
Nothing gets as old quickly as 'new sounds.' It wasn't for the
superficial titillation of sounds. It was for, above all, music time, the
way you can control time. There's such a difference between being
able to produce a sound as a performer, being able to strike the
keyboard, it's automatic. To produce a duration, it's totally different...
Time has always created problems with contemporary music--that's why the
music wasn't performed and when it was performed, it was done sloppily."
-Milton Babbitt, on his 1963 electronic piece Philomel
I for one really prefer accessible melodic content over incoherent
weird noises, but that is just a personal preference. I have problems
with experimental music, but maybe in a few years my taste will
have evolved to a point where I can appreciate DSP fuckery and
contemporary academic music to a greater extent. But understand
I'm the kind of guy who listens to Weezer too much and fails at sports.
This music stuff is killing me. I keep spending so much money
yet I always feel like I have nothing. I look at those little glowing
names on my screen and I just need to buy them. And then
when I do buy them I don't even listen to them. I mean, I do
eventually, but it takes me weeks if not years to get into an
album. I have to listen to something like two dozen times before
I can even start to like it or feel like I have a handle on it. I don't
know how most people just have this ability to dive right in and
have it all figured out with one or two listens. And I have this
problem with getting into the first few songs on an album before
the rest and then sometimes I don't even get around to listening
to the end of the album.
And this is what I hate most: It takes me forever to get myself
to like something, and then the second I like it I just keep
listening to it over and over until I'm sick of it. Then I need to go
out and buy more; I never really appreciate the original song as
much after I use it up. It's like a drug habit.
But I got an MD player now so I rip full albums straight off of
Napster on to minidiscs. I feel kind of bad about it but it's
helping me deal with my cravings. For example, a can get
Top 40 hits I really like without having to buy all those CDs.
Like I'll get Britney Spears' "Crazy" or Will Smith's "Miami"
and then listen to it about ten times, really rocking out, but
after that I'll have it out of my system for good. Why are you
still reading this? I'm rambling. Get on with your life.
Um, Autechre Vietrmx21. That's been my favorite. But I
consider LP5 the crux of my whole collection, whatever that
means. And goddamn that new While album is kicking my ass.
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<<Wait till the replicator is invented.....oh man, that would make the
internet "revolution" look like a WTO protest rally.>>
Actually, the replicator has already been invented, it just won't
be released to the public for another year or two. The invention
goes by the code-name "Ginger." You heard it here first.
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Oh, and where I found that other quote I stumbled across this which
kind of clears up a thread from a couple months ago:
"John Cage gave the first stage performance of a work using variable-
speed turntables and frequency recordings (Imaginary Landscape,
1938)." -Francois Bayle
Also, I attributed the invention of the scratch to Grandwizard Theodore, but
Grandmaster Flash really deserves credit. Flash came up with the concept
first (and just about any other hip hop turntablistic technique you can
think of), but Theodore was first to execute it effectively.
Kevin
np: Optiganally Yours "Exclusively Talentmaker"
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