From Nuutti-Iivari Merilainen Sent Thu, Oct 14th 1999, 13:57
From Nuutti-Iivari Merilainen Sent Thu, Oct 14th 1999, 13:57
Superfuzz wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nuutti-Iivari Merilainen <xxxxxx@xxx.xx> > > > She (like me) has a classical music education (we both played the > > violin for a good while and learned other instruments on the side), > > Er, not to pick a fight, but this statement seems to have little to do with > anything. Does this make her judgement of RePHLeX records any more important > than mine or anyone else? > At the risk of sounding like flamebait I state that musical education _does_ have a profound impact on listening experience. If one has been under the influence of classical music and theory for years, it does twist your opinion. It is not a judgement call, it is an inhibition created by studying and playing music that has more history and convention than electronic music in all of its incarnations. If a person with an education in music does not like something that sounds like a drunken german karaoke contest at Oktoberfest with 4-bit jingles separating the so-called music, I have no need to point fingers. Of course, as I wrote in my original message I find the record in question (Bodenstadig 2000's 'Maxi German Rave Blast Hits 3') humorous and very tongue-in-cheek, but I do not have to like it. I find Mike & Rich's 'Expert Knob Twiddlers' annoying as hell, but in a different way - since there is (supposedly) a very liquid reason for the album being what it is. Some V/VM stuff gets the hairs on my neck to stand on end and some records that I have in my collection (that some might argue are sort of classic IDM) have been played just once and forgotten because they are such excrement (I will not name any lest I be charged with blasphemy). The reason records like this are released is that there are those like me and perhaps some of you that just buy everything on a label they can get their hands on, even if it was two 7" pieces of sandpaper or a lock of hair or a few pieces of wire allegedly from Richard James' gear. We really should get a life. The point that should have been read between the lines is the one in the second sentence: having an education in music does away with your free conceptions of music, thus inhibiting the potential range of music you can listen to unless you teach yourself out of it or are very open to new and interesting things. Bah, I am starting to contradict myself. For the definition of humour, see Webster's or somesuch. Now I will go and slap myself silly with a rather large trout and forget about this thread (and later it will rise from the depths of the electronic ocean as the dreaded Shub-Internet is being summoned by the neo-satanists on the 'net. Ia! Ia! "Been reading Lovecraft lately?" "How did you guess?"). -- diversion : nuutti-iivari meriläinen : gordon at diversion dot org communications : http colon slash slash www dot diversion dot org slash