From eric hill Sent Fri, Mar 5th 1999, 17:22
From eric hill Sent Fri, Mar 5th 1999, 17:22
>> > i generally feel that if you're not doing something new with music, if >> > you're not speaking with your own voice, or not at the very least taking >> > an existing 'sound' and pushing it, don't speak at all. >> >> if everyone aheard to this rule then nobody would do anything ever. I'd say >> about 90% of musicians out there are living in the shadows of others, that's who are these people who have been able to completely detach themselves from all they've experienced, from everything that they'd draw upon when making music? all musicians participate in the history of music, though whether their path through it is recognizable or not seems to be the issue here - to idolize artists who are better at hiding their influences. i don't know where this idea of "artists who are trying to emulate autechre" came from, is there an interview somewhere where someone says that that's what they're doing: _trying_ to copy someone else? it's pretty mean to speak for an artist or a band in this way, to assume their motivations. the only way i can figure someone might come to this conclusion is if they are paying attention to the surface aspects of music with the mind of reducing the thing they are listening to what they think it sounds _like_, and deciding for themselves that intentional similarity is what's going on. the problem with this is that you have to think of the musician as someone who is trying to copy someone else while trying to sound different at the same time. subtracting the bitterness of the original poster, this just sounds like someone exercising their influences. eric