From Giles Ward Sent Sat, Feb 14th 1998, 15:30
From Giles Ward Sent Sat, Feb 14th 1998, 15:30
> >>substitute 'idm' for 'house' and you'd be no more innacurate > > >so why are you on this list? > > > i think it could be something to do with liking the music. how about you, > why are /you/ on this list? apart from the obvious reason - to annoy > people. play nicely or not at all ;-) > can someone on the list answer these questions... at what level of > complexity does a piece of music stop being predictable, and suddenly become > *un*predictable? Suppose it depends on how much of the genre you've heard before. Every genre has it's cliches, but playing around with the cliches is well respected in a genre like blues, so why not house music? It has to be said that house music is big business these days, and a lot is churned out to satisfy lowest common denominator demand. I'm sure a lot of people who dig modern day house know it's not the most cutting edge genre, but listen/dance anyway cos it's just another form of entertainment. Sort of like how many people read The Sun (fairly predictable, crappy english tabloid 'news'paper.) Or watching Neighbours (crappy Aussie soap). (Some) People know it's crap, but they enjoy it. Good luck to them. Just imagine if everyone liked IDM eh? Scary food for thought. You'd have to listen to something else ;-) >how long can you listen to a certain kind of music before > it becomes predictable? ?do you think that DELIBERATELY predictable music > is an invalid artform i.e boring? I like stuff like Robert Hood which is initially predictable, almost hypnotic, then throws you with something (usually subtle). >how many different reasons do we listen > to music for? um.. let's see. to be entertained, to be mentally stimulated, to dance to, to get pissed to, to go to sleep to, to drive to, to yodel along to (i'm just coming to terms with how to hum along with drill n' bass) Giles "I mean, I like all kinds of music, from Sting to Chris Rea and everything in between... except the Prodigy; that's just noise" Alan Partridge at the Brits