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

[Michal Seta <mis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy Tolsma wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>

I agree, but...
You have to be aware of what you are doing in relations to what others are or
have been doing.  This way:
1.  You don't replicate something that has already been done (if you consider
yourself an innovator)
2.  You can defend your point if someone accuses you of simply replicating
someone else's idea.

Comes to mind an interesting story about Xenakis bragging how Penderecki
copied his ideas of sound masses and all.  It turned out that Penderecki has
not heard of Xenakis in the early years of his carreer and his musical
language is based on totally different approach.  In fact, their music sounds
completely different.
However, they both dealt with aleatorism in on way or another (at the time, at
least).

MiS