On Jan 27, 2006, at 10:20 AM, aleks vasic wrote:
Why do many people focus soley on the process with which any type
of electronic music is made? The methodology? What about the
final result? How many guitars are sold that function in basically
the same way? How many traditional instrument period? Its what
you do with them, what you create that should garner ones attention.
I don't think any of the comments made were on the process at all,
per se, they were comments on the experiential / perceptual qualities
of the piece. It's not that the piece was made with a particular
process, so much as the fact that the process is immediately apparent
in 30 seconds of listening. Exposed, visible process is not
inherently bad, but I don't personally find the process or the
materials in question to be particularly poetic or engaging. Why
Ennio Morricone? Why backwards? Why leave the beginning undistorted?
In short, when you can /hear/ process, that process better be
interested/powerful/shocking/etc, otherwise why is it there?
(I don't want to put words in people's mouths: maybe the prior
comments about the piece /were/ simply criticisms of the process.)