Re: [microsound] influence vs. replica

[Bill Jarboe <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It looks like that paragraph is addressed to me. I started out studying
classical music ( at age six) and since then have been exposed to almost
every conceivable form of music making and levels or styles of
profitability.

 The piece I was going on about is just body electricity , no traditional
instruments.




on 10/29/02 3:09 PM, soren-microsound@xxxxxxxxxx at
soren-microsound@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I think alot of this has to do with our backgrounds.  You probably
> started off making music with electronics/computers, that sort of
> thing...I started off in school.  I've been way overexposed to what has
> been done without computers/electronics and I wanted something
> different.  After spending many years writing all of my music by hand I
> started using computers to compose and discovered that I could achieve
> what I was trying to do in the past much more easily and with more
> attention to detail.
> 
> What I find most interesting about electronic/computer music is that the
> technology can be used to create anything.  From pop to classical to
> .microsound to [insert label], they all can fall under the same
> roof...thus the crossover between classical music to pop/underground
> ("vernacular" music according to academia) has a space in
> electronic/computer music.
> 
> 
> I'm here somewhat to escape/expand the classical world, I assume many of you
> are here to escape/expand the, uh, non-classical world...
> 
> 
> In here is where we find the convergence...
> 
> Yup.
> 
> Soren
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:41:46AM -0800, Bill Jarboe wrote:
>> 
>> I've been following through most of this thread.
>> 
>> 
>> A couple of months ago my computer stopped working . Perhaps predictably I
>> tried a piece without a pc , tape recorder etc. and it actually worked.
>> 
>> -gave me a really different perspective on how music actually 'sounds' ,
>> how it reaches the audience and so forth . Also some experiences with being
>> really in tune with the 'natural world' plants and humans ( no animals yet).
>> 
> 
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