From Bob Bannister Sent Mon, Mar 1st 1999, 04:48
From Bob Bannister Sent Mon, Mar 1st 1999, 04:48
<christian a. h.> penned: <btw, anyone starting to question where the line between 'creative' programming / composition and straight out pretentiousness is being drawn?? i swear if i heard the 'beep beep' sound of a phone off the hook put to a minimal drum beat, i'd be pretty interested. (but only if it was released on MEGO..hehe. <insert sarcasm>) however, when the phone IS left off the hook, it's just damn annoying. (maybe because it's not in my CD player??) just a thought. or perhaps too much free time...> I got a promo CD from Matador that culls tracks from two forthcoming Cornelius releases - one is other artists remixing his "Fantasma" album (Money Mark, U.N.K.L.E., Coldcut, The High Llamas etc.) - the other is him remixing stuff by the same artists that remixed him. This is just background to my point although it seems like a good pair of releases - I have to admit, I'm not familiar with "Fantasma" or Cornelius in general (I'd loosely been categorizing him with Pizzicato Five for obvious reasons which doesn't seem that far off the mark) so I can't tell how radical any of the remixes are. Anyway, pertinent to the above, the Coldcut remix of "Typewrite Lesson" (and the original for all I know) has that sort of short, sharp musical keyboard hit that Windows 95 gives you when it can't do something (you mistype the name of a program in the Start Run command line, or mistype a URL in the Internet Explorer address line) - it's not "straight out pretentiousness" so much as yeah, it's sort of funny the first you hear a basically unwelcome sound recontextualized into a framework of sounds you supposedly choose to hear, but I'm not sure it's going to stand the test of time as a piece of music. I suppose people might say the same of the CD-skipping of Oval/Disc etc. but I find that has a lot more leeway for interestingness. Bob