(idm) re: not quite music

From Philip Sherburne
Sent Thu, Sep 30th 1999, 16:31

Funny, just last night I was thinking about Bernhard Gunter & Ralf
Wehowsky...  I'd definitely think they would fit the description.  Funny
thing about both of them -- I've always had trouble listening to them --
quite literally -- because I just can't hear them.  My stereo's not good
enough; once I turn the volume up high enough to hear what's on the CD, the
hum from my system drowns it all out.  I'm sure there's an irony there
somewhere.

(Carsten Nicolai tells a funny story about Francisco Lopez sending Bernhard
Gunter a tape of some of his material... and Gunter calls him up and says,
"But the tape is blank!!")  So much for IDM humor.  True story, though.

As for Or, the only thing I've got is the new Shirt Trax, which features
Mark Fell from snd, and is NOTHING like snd.  Abstract hardly describes it.
More like totally random and without organization.  I haven't decided what I
think yet; as of early listens, it may be total crap, or it could be genius
(yes, i AM bipolar).  Stay tuned!

philip




>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 02:44:38 -0700 (PDT)
>From: solenoid <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
>Subject: Re: (idm) not quite music recommendations

>Hmm, that is really interesting!  Do these guys fit that description also:

> Bernard Gunter, Ralf Wehowsky, and P16.D4

>Is a lot of stuff on Or pretty abstract?

solenoid