From Nate Harrison Sent Fri, Feb 5th 1999, 19:03
From Nate Harrison Sent Fri, Feb 5th 1999, 19:03
Music is not math. Music just 'is'. Math is an observation. Nate On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, terraHertz wrote: > On 4 Feb 1999, little miss trinitron wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:02:46 GMT > > From: xxxxxx@xxx-xxx-xxx.xxxxx.xx.xx (little miss trinitron) > > Subject: Re: (idm) Bola: "Soup" > > > > autechre last night weren't very good - clippity-clop beats, one note > > bass, and plugin-patching unextraodinaire - mostly transparent and > > insubstantial - about enough good material in their (very long) set > > for a 2 minute track.. toolshed murdered them in my humble opinion.. > > and hang that blessed dj! > > > > motto for today - music is not mathematics! > > Music IS mathematics to me, I think music is a billion trillion equations > with just a smattering of random number generators feeding values to the > equations, which would be things like the weather, or your mood, or > relative degree of intoxication -- whatever influences your songwriting > process. > > i'm not saying autechre couldn't have been boring. most likely they just > needed more equations. > > face it, if you use any kind of sequencer, your music CAN be transcribed > into an equation. > > > Nick > > > > the future: www.noisemusic.org/it -- sounds like: www.gl.umbc.edu/~nworth1 > the shaman McKenna breaks shiat down: www.levity.com/eschaton/novelty.html > >