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

[Jeremy Tolsma <ccws@xxxxxxxx>]

> > do you think proficiency in previously pioneered technique would be
> detrimental to free-form experimentalism? and to reiterate, either it
would
> be detrimental or have no effect on it, so either way a history in music
> theory will _not_ help you be a good microsound musician. repeat: do not
> study music if you to be a microsound musician. ;)

well I think you can get caught up in too much academia in any subject.
Using the Charlie Parker example, I don't get the impression that he knew a
whole lot of rules in the first place, just enough to accomplish the
experimentation he was setting out to do.  Theres no real sense in learning
more than you have to in order to get the job done, unless it would satisfy
you as a personal acheivement.