Re: (idm) Re: music/math

From Nate Harrison
Sent Fri, Feb 5th 1999, 20:51

Ha Ha! This is going down as my fav IDM post for February:)

Nate

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Adam J Weitzman wrote:

> I think that from now on, whenever I review a release, I will express it
> in mathematical terms.  All IDM releases will be described by a
> mathematical expression involving beats (B), funkiness (F), noisiness
> (N), cut-up (C), subliminality (S) and Autechre units (Ae).
> 
> For instance:
> 
> Autechre's latest album: 9Ae + 7B - 4F + 2N
> Bola's _Soup_: (5B + 8S + Ae + 2F) / N
> Fennesz's _Hotel_Paral.lel_: 4B * 4N + 2C
> Mouse On Mars _Autoditacker_: Ae * (6S + 3F + 3N + B) + C
> anything by Funkstorung: (3/5)Ae
> anything on V/Vm: 9C * 7N - 20Ae^2
> 
> See how easy this is?  :-)
> 
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