From stowe Sent Mon, Aug 24th 1998, 03:38
From stowe Sent Mon, Aug 24th 1998, 03:38
Hi all, it's me again. I would just like to thank everyone who helped me gain a lot of understanding by expanding on my original conversation topic of Philip Glass and IDM. I really appreciate it. I posed a question about The Orb and Steve Reich to a classical mailing list, and apparently, those folks are not very openminded at all! >I wish I could help you, but I don't know "The Orb," so I have no way of >knowing. I doubt very much that anything was pilfered, as all of Reich's >stuff is in copyright, and, there would have been one hell of a lawsuit if >anything had been. Additionally, so much material from early minimalism is so >naturally "ambient" that it would be impossible to tell if the borrowing were >intentional or mere coincidence. Of course, not having heard the excerpt in >question, I could be wrong, but based on my experience with these things, I >thing it's a pretty good bet that I'm not. > >Dave Hmmm... I can see he's never heard of "sampling" before. Anyhow, thank you for everything again, everyone. Oh, is there such thing as "cheesy" IDM music? Several of these classical-types bash Aphex Twin and call him "a crock" and "a sham", citing works like On as being "cheesy" and "amature". Snobbism still isn't dead, sigh... I don't know what cheesy music is supposed to sound like.. how can someone transfer a taste sensation to an auditory one? -Merced Flem