>> I think
>> electronic dance music is so popular because it hits the brain with
>> discrete patterns which are then understood through movements of the
>> body by dancing, making it a total experience.
>>
> Indeed... yet denying this link seems oddly popular in that scene. I think I
> commented on it before, but I also see strong similarities between the
> Baroque concept of using the human voice as a ideal for the sound of
> instruments and the sounds popular in dance music. The baroque period saw
> more phenomena that I believe are closely linked to our own practice.
> Of course this trend is slowly reversing and currently there are senior
> students and young educators who grew up in a era where electronic sounds
> are the default which makes it all the more understandable that we are
> seeing these "knee jerks". I predict that in a few years well laugh about
> the days when coding music slowly in a overly bright room was seen as
> fundamentally different from coding quickly in a dark one.
>
That makes me laugh already - in a good way :)
I would also suggest the slow coding in well lit rooms is a very
academic experience, my commercial programming jobs always turn out to
be in dark offices with never enough time to do the job properly.
>>
>> Stockhausen totally agrees with Kassen:
>>
>> "I would recommend that every student of music go dancing at least
>> once a week. And dance. Please, really dance: three of four hours a
>> week."
>> Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1989
>>
>
> I try to do it *during* my musical studies. It helps that I'm not especially
> good at either dancing or typing so performance isn't harmed much. Still
> didn't get round to the very serious joke of putting guitar-strap-pegs on a
> keyboard.
> Personally I see little harm in being a "joke category". A humorous approach
> has served other artistic and political movements very well.
> Yours,
> Kas.
Personally speaking one of the things that attracted me to
'livecoding' was the humour it was often conducted with, things crash,
break, mistakes happen its part of the fun.
Scott
Received on Thu Feb 17 2011 - 13:48:45 GMT