(idm) RE: reynolds rant (long and rambly) (avant garde)

From Joshua Whitcomb
Sent Sun, Apr 11th 1999, 19:46

> why do some people seem to feel so threatened by the fact that 
> others can buy v/vm or lucky kitchen or diskono etc or even worse 
> just download mp3's of like minded efforts.

Though I cannot speak for everyone or even from experience because I 
don't know anything about producing music, I have heard the reason 
from musicians that the avant-garde / noise style is very easy to 
produce; it doesn't take much effort or skill.  Perhaps it is like 
with graphic art, where someone can load up an image and apply 50 
random Photoshop filters on it to achieve a nice-looking (or 
harsh/grating/confusing in the case of the music at hand) colorful 
picture that doesn't resemble the original very much, but is it any 
good since the computer basically made it?  But I suppose in 
commercial graphic design this exact thing happens a lot too. :-)

-Joshua Whitcomb

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