I think part of this "I hate DSP wankery" depends on what sort of ear
you have for noise. If noise is noise is noise to you, then a lot of
heavily processed Max/DSP-produced stuff will probably sound similar
and boring. On the other hand, if noise is just unrecognized music to
you, then it's a lot more exciting. Mind you, some of it still gives
me a headache....
Luis
p.s. I've been listening to DAT Politics' "Tracto Flirt" again and came
up with a new name for that sound: "post-digital fauvism." You heard it
here first! (Now I just need somebody to declare it "dead")
On Jan 24, 2005, at 4:59 PM, graham miller wrote:
quoted 38 lines they said the same thing of drum machines when they first emerged and> they said the same thing of drum machines when they first emerged and
> infiltrated pop music in a
> serious way in the early eighties... "where's the talent? the drum
> machine does all the work..."
> was a common comment overheard by many a bitter drummer... and despite
> their initial fears, drum
> machines never put drummers out of work... automation just opened up
> the sound and groove palette
> of music... music talent could now be measured in new ways: sound
> design and programming became
> the criteria of the sublime - not the athleticism intrinsic to
> acoustic performative instruments.
> ditto goes for reaktor and what not today... the same ratio of crappy
> to sublime music is still
> in effect. always has been, always will. there's just more music now.
>
> graham | intrepid traveller
>
> "Albers, Brian" wrote:
>
>>
>> How does the saying go?- "One man's garbage is another man's
>> treasure" or something like that?
>>
>> now on- live Richard Devine.
>>
>>
>> I saw someone reference an idm artist's output as
>> "another mechanical piece of noise". I was just
>> talking with a friend about that. I'm sick of tunes
>> that are just fucked up dsp/algorithmic masturbation.
>> If that is all there is to the tune it's totally
>> boring.
>
>
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