From martin burbridge Sent Mon, Apr 12th 1999, 17:22
From martin burbridge Sent Mon, Apr 12th 1999, 17:22
> > 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. sorry for contributing to my own thread, but i've heard this one before. it gets used all the time in the rock vs electronica debate. having all those computers and synths and particularly drum machines, makes it really easy to make music as opposed to having to learn to play drums or guitar like real musicians do. and of course punk rock was all shouting, which is really easy to do not like singing. and none of them could play their guitars properly unlike jimmy page and eric clapton who were very good at it indeed. rap is just talking and people playing records, and so on. i'm also pretty sure noise isn't synonymous with w/ cutting edge and i should think it is just as easy to make a reasonably generic noise record as it is to make an average idm track. worse it require just as much skill to make a good record out of distortion and noise as it is to create a bouncing space synth zapping idm gem. so what we are left w/ is that neither genre nor effort involved can tell us whether a record is good or bad, and skill is just hard to quantify. i mean, why does life have to be so chuffin difficult? -martin