(idm) gossip about experimental vs. accessible music

From Sean Cooper
Sent Tue, Sep 21st 1999, 04:09

>>i think tetsu inoue says in the urbansounds interview something about
>>anyone can make weird, fucked-up sounding music, the harder thing to do is
>>>make it accessible.
>>
>I'm not really sure Tetsuo had that one nailed down right. After writing
>D&B and techno stuff for years, I did a little expirement last year
>about this time: try and write some pop songs. I got a female 
>vocalist fot the tracks and everything. I actually found it a little
>bit easier to do. Most accessible music relies on very predictable...

tetsu's point was not about making accessible music, it was about making
experimental music that is *also* accessible. if the rarity of such music
is any indication, i'd say he was spot on.

sc