From iso-8859-1 Sent Thu, Mar 5th 1998, 11:45
From iso-8859-1 Sent Thu, Mar 5th 1998, 11:45
At 15:13 04.03.98 +0200, you wrote: >On 3 Mar 98, Brad Shelton wrote: > >(OVAL) > >> Offhand it sounds like you would enjoy their 'Systemisch' >> full-length the best. [...] 'Systemisch' features subtle but >> definitely-felt rhythms (clicky-pseudo-beats) on all but a couple of >> tracks. > >Indeed it does : sounds like a CD version of scratched vinyl, the >sound of a skipping disc - which wears pretty thin after a while. I >don't geddit at all. What am I missing here? Is there some gnostic >secret I'm not in on? I was greatly disappointed with Systemisch. I've always wondered what this "getting it" would look like if one was actually able to describe it. What kind of information is needed to enter and understand Oval's "gnostic" universe? Music is abstract and is therefore very difficult to translate into meaningful sentences, i.e. explaining why a certain piece of music is great and how one should approach fx. Systemisch (or Dok, which is even greater). For example: How would people on this list explain "getting it" when listening to Autechre so that other people who had not heard them before would be able to "get it"? How would you "transmit" your feelings or intellectual activities relating to certain music so that "non-insiders" (probably not a word, but what the heck) would understand it? Conclusion: Get everything Oval's done; begin with Dok, then Diskont '94 and so on. :) >I /Oeivind/