From Philip Sherburne Sent Mon, Apr 19th 1999, 20:34
From Philip Sherburne Sent Mon, Apr 19th 1999, 20:34
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:24:26 +0200 From: "Dr. Smith" <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx> Subject: Re: (idm) Autechre, BOC, FSOL suck, or IDM lessons Tosh Cooey wrote: >> Here's the problem, Autechre's Incabula (sp?), BOC's Music has the >> Right.., and FSOL's ISDN have both been highly discussed on this list as >> great works of music, but I didn't like anything from any of them, and I > >sorta found them boring. >>BUT, I like Plastikman's Consumed and most Chain Reaction offerings, and >>if anything is repetitive and boring those would be, and I like Philip >>Glass and Reich, so maybe "boring" is subjective.> > Ok, I kinda know where you're coming from. When I was first exposed to >Autechre (Tri Repetae) I just couldn't get into it. Same with BoC and FSOL. >It was cool, but I couldn't appreciate it by listening to it *passively*. >That's the trick with these artists, esp. Ae, is that in order to fully >aprpeciate their art you have to be actively engaged in listening. Once I >started doing this, I found that music that I once thought "boring" was >really incredibly amazing. Try just relaxing in a comfy chair with >headphones on. Focus exclusively on the music (don't fall asleep) and just >think about it. Let it run through you mind and be the soundtrack for your >thoughts. Pretty soon you'll do this without even trying, it's a habit like >any other, but one that will enrich your life. It might soudn kind of >cheezy, but it's fact; you have to take a dialectical approach to music or >you simply limit yourself. Jesus, how condescending. Why assume that Tosh doesn't know the "trick" to active listening? Sounds more likely that he/she just doesn't really dig IDM (and ambient-schlock like FSOL), and prefers minimal-techno and the 4/4 structures of Chain Reaction, etc. In which case it's not the listener that's at issue, but the kind of music, and for people who put themselves in this camp, the Warp/Rephlex sound is less likely to excite than the Chain Reaction/Profan/Harvest/Eat Raw/M-nus sound...