On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:59:57 -0500, graham miller
<grahammiller@sympatico.ca> wrote:
quoted 8 lines they said the same thing of drum machines when they first emerged and infiltrated pop musi
> 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.
a good way of putting it,
I believe that people who like electronic music listen with a
different ear than people who stick to more conventional songs
(pop/rock...)
I've been tricked into trying to explain why electronic music is just
as good as rock for instance many times before, but when people focus
on the manual skill required to handle a guitar, or focus on musical
theory music like drum'n'bass or IDM doesn't even qualify as music to
them, it's just noise, sound, and it's just about pushing PLAY on the
DAT/CD player/computer and anyone can do that right...
maybe it's partly because I'm a hobbiest producer myself, and I
realise how hard it is to make your beats sound as phat and flowing as
Ed Rush and Optical do, or cut up beats like Squarepusher does without
making it sound completely random and crappy as hell
but then again, I sort of have the same thing with accoustic
instruments... the bass intro of One from Metallica doesn't impress me
personally... try to explain that to someone who's been practicing
bassguitar for hours to get it right
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