From martin wheeler Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 16:47
From martin wheeler Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 16:47
> but it does slightly offend me when people assume that electronic music >is programmed in the same fashion that someone writes computer code...it's >not too much different a process than a guitar band going into a modern >digital studio and recording multiple tracks of everything and then >editing out all the mistakes... I'm sorry, but you are wrong. Wwhether it offends you or not, the reality is that most 'idm' type music is made wholely or partly in ways that bear very little resemblence indeed to the 'process' you mention. Its not just a question of 'live playing' versus step-time, there are a million ways to make electronic music in which the live playing (at least in the sense that you are using it) aspect is completely absent, for example roland drum machine and 303 type programming either on these machines or on ReBirth type clones, Max, drumgrid editing, Metasynth, using waveloops inside synthesisers, breaking up and restructuring breakbeats in samplers or audio sequencers, using intelligent arpegiators, algorithmic composition techniques etc etc Some or all of these techniques (and many others) are widely used in everything from house to techno to drum n'bass to electronica to experimental whatever ... There are also many techniques in which although a few notes might indeed actually get 'played' at some point, these few notes are then looped, transposed, time stretched, reversed, layered, mixed and mangled in ways that would probably make your average 'guitar band in the studio' really rather nervous ;-)