quoted 6 lines On a related note, it?s interesting how satie didn?t at times consider> On a related note, it?s interesting how satie didn?t at times consider
> himself to be a composer. More of a scientist, I think. Althought his
> famous signature was: ?Erik Satie, Composer of Music? or something, he
> often claimed not be a composer. This is quite interesting, because many
> IDM (and other electronic-based) composers have similar attitudes. u-ziq
> comes to mind.
Egad! I just picked up "Art of the Sixth Sense: Cabaret Voltaire" last
night (incidently, non-arty CV fans should know that their name is from
the 9-month-lived cafe in which the Dadaists converged regularly).
Anyway, in the book, Richard H. Kirk said that he still didn't consider
himself a musician but more of an experimenter who was just sort of using
music as the tool (paraphrased a bit).
Many of the noise/experimental musicians (?) I've played with seem to feel
this way. Plus, I've always prefaced playing noise music for, uh, normal
people (that is relative, yes) by saying that they might be more likely to
enjoy/be-open-to what I play if they don't consider it music at all.
This seems true for rhythmic electronic music too, whereas most listeners
may choose to identify the beat with music-side of what they are
listenning to and the rest as, uh, well, "bleep, blloop, whoooosh"
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