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> From: Ben Kirkley [mailto:ben.kirkley@displaypost.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 5:19 AM
> To: edhall@weirdnoise.com; Idm
> Subject: Re: [idm] IDM - Intelligence vs Emotion
>
> Er, I'm not saying I want to separate intelligence from emotion. What I am
> saying is that some IDM music has a tendency to be written with a focus on
> the mathematics behind the sound rather than just making a good
> decent tune.
> I don't think that this
> approach to music making has very much longevity in it, except to
> the elite
From what I understand - and keep in mind I'm no music scholar - very much
of classical music began with someone focusing on "the mathematics behind
the sound". Even without advanced mathmatics of any sort, a lot of it was
playing with the rules and forms of writing music, sometimes trying to make
something pure or spiritual. Music of the spheres or music of God, that
sort of stuff. The motives may be slightly different, but nevertheless,
focusing on the math or the rules of music itself to make new music has a
long and respected history in western music, and probably in some other
cultures as well. Not to say that there's anything wrong with math or "just
making a good decent tune." I pretty much don't worry about such things and
just like stuff or don't like stuff. I suggest others do the same, unless
you're a music scholar, in which case you enjoy this stuff on a different
level than I do, and that's fine, too :D
-damek love,
lord ambassador of high
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