From Danny Freer Sent Tue, Feb 2nd 1999, 04:38
From Danny Freer Sent Tue, Feb 2nd 1999, 04:38
At 11:55 PM 2/1/99 +0000, Jon wrote: >[tempos...] >> well i don't mean to cloud your art vision, but i've heard someone try to >> do this and it sounds like shit. why bother? > >Wouldn't that depend on the tempos in qn? I'm sure there's a school of >minimalism where you take 1 phrase and repeat it at two tempos slightly >out (like 1 bpm or so?) - the "music" comes from the >in-phase/out-of-phase stuff that goes on over time... >Could also be fun to run, say 120bpm vs 90bpm maybe? (Nice simple >fractions.) I believe Brian Eno did something like that on "Neroli".. and it was unspeakably boring. 58 minutes of synthy bell/chime sounds going in and out of sync with each other. It was mildly interesting for about 5 minutes.. 58 minutes, though, was torturous. I know he wrote some sort of explanation in the liner notes, but I don't have those anymore because I sold the CD (thank god). Jesus Christ, that was an awful album. What happened to Brian Eno? He used to be so good. He was great up until about the early/mid eighties.. and then he seemed to lose every bit of ingenuity. Were there any other people in the 70's that were doing stuff similar to Eno's "Another Green World" and "Before And After Science"? Or the "Healthy Colours I-IV" tracks on "The Essential Fripp&Eno", for that matter. I always liked those..