Re: [microsound] |-| Re:eR [microsound] autechre/richard devine// techniques ]]

[estevan carlos <diablatomica@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> the point here wasn't about music theory but about time spent learning it.
> all too many people take 2 or 4 years of college instead of doing
important
> things like experimenting, performing, collaborating with other musicians
> ... or more specific to microsound, learning about filtering, synthesis,
> gear, technical things.


though i have just begun my college excursion with a planned major in
recording engineering, i don't think my "2 or 4 years" will be wasted.  i
have a great appreciation for the experimental aspects of work and plan to
continue my work in that general direction at times.  with that in mind, it
can be said that i can attend college and attend its traditional classes on
theory, while still indulging my fancy in other fields and areas.  my
knowledge of the tertian scale will not inhibit my other endevours, though
im disappointed that's the only scale this school's music curriculum
teaches.  and concerning the time spent, well, i will be devoid of a social
life but that may apply to many of us here already.


> and yeah, charlie parker said "learn the rules so you can break them" or
> somesuch but i don't think that has to do with experimental music.. in
fact
> by definition experimental music is outside of the traditional rules of
> songwriting/classical theory, it has no relationship to them whatsoever.
>
> -jonah

chances are we can experiment to our own personal standards.  they don't
always have to break any particular rules, we can end up doing something
inadvertantly with no tradtional knowledge of how, it may be something new
to us and not to others- something that has been done before.  overall, i
believe it can be a loose process.

e.