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In a recent editorial in Organised Sound, Tony Myatt suggested that 'Computer Music' is now a term that should be used to describe IDM and that words such as 'electroacoustic' and concepts such as Schaeffer's 'modes of listening' are now meaningless. Discuss. I have to do a 2500 word essay on this subject, I'd be interested to know what you lot think on the matter. |
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fuse and bass |
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use those 2500 words to describe why music journalists are pompous, trendwhoring idiots who need to pigeonhole everything into convenient genres just to make sense of it all. "writing about music is like dancing about architecture" oh and fyi, nu-idm is the term that should be used. |
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I told my lecturer that I thought the term IDM was an oxymoron and he scowled at me. |
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what's wrong with dancing about architecture? |
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Well, I'd prefer 'computer music' over IDM any day. Computer music, as I see it, could sound like anything, any style or genre, whereas I think most people who follow such music have a preconceived notion about what an 'idm' record should sound like. Of course, shedding those preconceptions isn't really worth much if the music itself still sounds exactly like "idm." I guess the change has to come from everyone. Calling it something else won't stop the people who really want to make music and call it "idm." But we can hope. |
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Thanks! I can't find the fucking Organised Sound article cited in the essay title anywhere without paying to view it. sigh. |
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what's wrong with the term IDM? |
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