From solenoid Sent Fri, May 28th 1999, 04:50
From solenoid Sent Fri, May 28th 1999, 04:50
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Moonlight wrote: > used for a subgenre that includes "lite techno," like Madonna albums. IDM > has that damn rephlex/warp/skam concept to it. Is there a large category > that includes everything from Fila Brazillia and Coldcut to "Rotted One > Note" to Coil to IDM and ambient and techno/house and jungle yet still > excludes pop music? Can we invent one? Experimental electronic music experimental techno Don't let others' misuse of a word that you think accurately describes something keep you from using it. "Experimental" has a dennotation that is far stronger than any stigma a connotation can suggest. Techno being described as the original electronic dance music of the late80's/early90's and experimental being just like the dictionary definition(s). Coming up with a new hybrid name seems superfluous when most of what you are listenning to is still 4/4 made on drum boxes and computers/sequencers. >(what other meta-genres would > have songs written by pictures?), The "fake" Dr Moolenbeek of Hafler Trio, an experimental electronic music (maybe called "noise music") supposedly generated pictures from paint exposed to soundwaves (just a joke, afaict) though that is the reverse process of what you mentioned. Also, Conlan Nancarrow drew visually-pleasing lines of punched holes on player piano rolls starting in the 1950's, so picture-based sound-generation has a history, imo. He was a bit outside of the avant-garde/academic music culture (Columbia/university, neo-classical, theory-based) so he might best be called just "experimental" as well. Oldnoise-a-loid