Kent Williams wrote:
quoted 5 lines Some of what he's doing on the Polyester disk is intentional, and some of> Some of what he's doing on the Polyester disk is intentional, and some of
> it is just plain bugging out.
>
> Besides in a century that contains Archie Shepp, Thelonius Monk and John
> Cage, can you really say *any* note is a wrong note?
When Coltrane or Ornette Coleman go atonal I dig it, and I love Monk's missteps and
duffed notes; Tom Waits' out-of-tune singing and organ playing is nice too, because
it's appropriate to the songs. The soloing on Polyester is just plain bad, because it
doesn't work as a parody of keyboard wankery or as real solo material.
Soloing on idm releases works best as real-time manipulation of sound (e.g. filters,
effects, and patch parameters); soloing as practiced in pop or jazz music just doesn't
work both from a rhythmic or structural point when brought to the idm arena, if ya ask
me...
GD