Truth be told, if I wanted something that "develops dramatically in an
interesting way" I would listen to Wagner or Beethoven. I'm pretty
fond of repetition as a compositional strategy, and I think that the
refusal of narrative structure is one of the strongest aspects of
electronic dance music in general.
Also, I have trouble imagining the separation between music and
technique that you make below. Technique/Expressivity or
Complexity/Simplicity might work better for your purposes, although I'm
still not entirely sold...
cheers,
Luis
On Jan 25, 2005, at 5:09 AM, David Sim wrote:
quoted 45 lines I think part of this "I hate DSP wankery" depends on what sort of ear>> 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.
>
> I'm not sure. I quite like noise. I don't think all of the people who
> are ambivalent towards DSPery are merely objecting to the lack of big
> obvious melodies. The problem that I personally have with some[1] of
> the heavily processed stuff around at the moment is that it makes an
> impressive number of parameter changes per second its main feature,
> and enables people to try to keep your interest by repeating the same
> idea over and over again with a different 17 plugins every time,
> rather than by writing something that develops dramatically in an
> interesting way.
>
> The comparison to the introduction of drum machines doesn't really
> hold up - if you like electronic music at all, you'd be forced to
> admit that programming dense glitch-hoppery is pretty technically
> intense. Probably a better analogy would be to the Steve Vai-esque
> fretwankers, or to the sillier end of slap bass, where technical skill
> and speed are worshipped at the expense of everything else.[2] Whereas
> if you're Jimi Hendrix or Charlie Parker or (for my money) Autechre
> you can be technical and musical, and everyone wins.
>
> d.
>
> [1] but far from all. Some of it I love.
> [2] I'm probably going to get savaged by outraged Steve Vai fans now...
>
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