RE: (idm) RE: reynolds rant (long and rambly) (avant garde)

From Moonlight
Sent Mon, Apr 12th 1999, 18:44

Hi, I'm new to the list, but i'll add my $.02:

At 12:28 PM 4/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
>i'm also pretty sure noise isn't synonymous with w/ cutting edge and i
>should think it is just as easy to make a reasonably generic noise record as
>it is to make an average idm track. worse it require just as much skill to
>make a good record out of distortion and noise as it is to create a bouncing
>space synth zapping idm gem.

I've tried my hand at using computer programs of all sorts of levels to
create/modify sound, and i spent a lot of the time making
avant-garde-sounding noise.  It was pretty easy to do, and i had some cool
sounds come out, pretty much on accident. Yet that's all it was, cool
sounds, not songs. I've tried my ass off trying to arrange these great
(IMO) sounds into anything like a cohesive whole and while it doesn't sound
terrible, it doesn't sound that convincing either.  So i agree with your
point, as i'm stuck here with a hard drive nearly full of great noises that
I can't bear to delete but haven't been able to use at all.  Noise comes
easy, but good arrangements of it are tough.

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