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offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2004-08-01 05:32 [#01292014]
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inspired by the "is Aphex still your favorite" thread by nacmat and the
conversation that we got into:

do you think that there will be another groundbreaking
artist in the future like for example Kraftwerk, Richard D
James and Autechre?

I don´t think so because we reached the top of all hearable
sounds in the last 10 years thanks to all kind of music gear
and computers

like with colors, in the last decade we managed to
see/create all the possible colors we could make thanks to
computers, we now only combine colors to create "new ones"
I think that is what we have with sounds aswell now, I hope
my feeling is wrong though...




 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-08-01 05:34 [#01292016]
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what a silly question.

"groundbreaking" is not just about new sounds. it is all
about the combinations and recombinations.

and even then - the colors-thing can be scientifically
proven. how could you prove that all possible and/or
hearable sounds have been made..


 

offline Sido Dyas from a computer on 2004-08-01 05:35 [#01292017]
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No man , thats like saying theres an end to universe.
If we want to see new colours we have to invent new eyes.


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2004-08-01 05:38 [#01292019]
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I don´t say it is, I think it is
there is nothing to prove..


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-08-01 05:39 [#01292020]
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there is if you're going to use that analogy.


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2004-08-01 05:43 [#01292022]
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it´s just a feeling I have...

your answer is clear, you don´t think so


 

offline Bill Burroughs from Colombia on 2004-08-01 06:07 [#01292028]
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groundbreaking music has suffered a major blow because
filesharing has hit a lot of musicians so badly that they
can't make a living making music and now have to spend
valuable time doing crappy day jobs, eg mike paradinas who
recently had to go back to his old job at Boots the chemist


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-08-01 06:56 [#01292049]
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i don't think it's over, no...


 

offline isnieZot from pooptown (Belgium) on 2004-08-01 06:56 [#01292050]
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stupid thread


 

offline Toejam from Perth (Australia) on 2004-08-01 07:10 [#01292062]
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well, i sure hope not...


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2004-08-01 07:32 [#01292074]
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Boots the chemist?
what are you talking about.
I agree it's shit that arists can't make a living just doing
music, and despise the people who make them decay.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2004-08-01 08:17 [#01292093]
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I hope so, I hate groundbreaking music. I want trouser
splitting music.


 

offline scup_bucket from bloated exploding piss pockets on 2004-08-01 08:21 [#01292095]
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music is for kids


 

offline Erronous from Netherlands, The on 2004-08-01 09:10 [#01292125]
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what a silly answer,

A recombination is like a reinvention and can never be
groundbreaking, unless a newbie hears it for the first
time.
There is a limited range of frequencies you can hear, a
limited possible number of melody-compositions, and a
limited amount of bass-patterns (and so on) so technically
at some point you will have heard anything,
anything.

only IF you will live for more than 500 years, though.

It's all about trends, you see the big labels are avoiding
the pure electronica now, you don't like the trend right
now, you'll wait and be astonished a few years later. Or you
can start hunting old classics, which can be extremely fun.

Perhaps, when Richard was born 20 years later, you wouldn't
have liked his music at all....


 

offline Torture Garden from Feelin' 2Pacish on 2004-08-01 09:47 [#01292148]
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You're right, A recombination is like a reinvention. But a
recombination brings several ideas together to create
something new. They're limits on what you can hear but new
technology and new ground brings more possibilities on what
you hear, such as Microtonal music.


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-08-01 10:18 [#01292181]
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One day I'll learn how to use fruity loops or some such and
it'll be like Wylde Stallions but real


 

offline belagio from lakeside on 2004-08-01 10:19 [#01292184]
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it can be a frustrating time for electronic music makers
now.
but the time will come again maybe in a few years or in 10
or 20 years? if some radical tech or convenient interface
comes along. some lucky bastards will be pioneers again.

but then again, new generation's revolution might not be to
my taste like older generations don't get autechre or
aphex.

p.s. Even by today's tech, I think there's room for
improvement. Just ppl are bit tired now.


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2004-08-01 10:45 [#01292215]
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Bah, bollocks. Groundbreaking music will never die, just
like groundbreaking art will never die. It revolves around
people interpreting the sounds in new ways, not in "how many
combinations of sounds you can physically hear". It might
not be groundbreaking in the sense of "creating a whole new
(shudder) genre", but being truly, unselfconsciously
creative is always groundbreaking.


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2004-08-01 10:59 [#01292228]
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music is art and indeed it resolves around and there sure
will be stunning releases in the future...

maybe my interpertation of groundbreaking is wrong...


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-08-01 11:02 [#01292231]
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exactly.


 

offline ChildrenTalking from United States on 2004-08-01 11:04 [#01292232]
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once robots take over the planet they will surpass our
musical capabilities therefore making us sad, but happy at
the same time.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-08-01 11:07 [#01292234]
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OH FUCK I JUST LET ONE FLY AND I'VE NEVER HEARD
ANYTHING LIKE IT BEFORE!!

if only I recorded it.. :(

I vow to spend the rest of my life in reproducing
exactly how I lived the last week, thus hoping to
reproduce this almost mythical sound.. I tell you it
exists!

THERE IS HOPE FOR NEW MUSIC YET!


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-08-01 11:16 [#01292241]
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once again, lethargy has beaten me


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2004-08-01 11:18 [#01292244]
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COME ON QRTER, YOU CAN DO IT!!111

We're all rooting for you here.


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2004-08-01 11:19 [#01292246]
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I think that Kcinsu, aka Zeus makes groundbreaking music.
Ochre is also one of the best artists on this board. I've
been listening to 'The Current State of Sofia' (By Kcinsu)
and the style is of a standard only comparable to the very
best of the best. No way is this the end of groundbreaking
music. The sky is the limit my friend.


 

offline acrid milk hall from United Kingdom on 2004-08-01 11:23 [#01292250]
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*yawwn*


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-08-01 11:23 [#01292253]
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I can imagine some music software that could handle and
manipulate and organize information even better than current
software, as indirectly observed by listening to innovative
tracks by, for example, schematic. However I can't imagine
how to create such software exactly, except perhaps that
evolution might play a role. The human, as a creator, is
really an unnecessary middleman between the software and the
output.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-08-01 11:23 [#01292254]
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qrter:

breaking wind for groundbreaking music.


 

offline acrid milk hall from United Kingdom on 2004-08-01 11:29 [#01292261]
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first of all you'd have to work out how to program human
error, random accident.. because that is one of the
major functions that people creating electronic music with
machines fulfill.

which actually makes them an invaluable part of the
equation.. as opposed to an unecessary middleman.


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2004-08-01 12:16 [#01292297]
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If you live to be 500, you won't hear everything there is to
hear. In the span of someone's short life, you'll never run
out of unique music, to YOU. Maybe you'll make some decent
headway if you're a quadriplegic that spends 24 hours a day
listening to 24 albums a day. Music's career has been long,
varied and satisfying, a nice back catalogue. Eventually,
maybe the ''unheard sounds'' cache will dwindle a BIT (I
rarely hear something that makes me prick my ears up and
say, ''whoa, what is THAT?), but I mean, it's not like that
matters... we don't live long enough to hear the tip of the
iceberg anyway. There's always something new, or old.
There's so many sounds out there, people will be
reconfiguring and mixing and matching them a little bit (or
a lot) until we're extinct.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2004-08-01 12:26 [#01292300]
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creative expression is not bound by the tools used to
create. the limits are only defined by the artist's ability
to imagine. has everything been imagined yet? absolutely
not.


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2004-08-01 12:31 [#01292303]
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yes and also, music is about length. So you can possibly not
hear everything, and everything cannot be made (due to lack
of time, I mean what if someone would compose a 500-year
composition, nobody would be able to hear the entire song).


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2004-08-01 12:35 [#01292311]
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this planet is a 5 billion year old song.



 

offline weltact from Taiwan on 2004-08-01 12:46 [#01292320]
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there is no end to it, just like theres no end to any other
art


 

offline fungusman from Monster Island on 2004-08-01 12:46 [#01292321]
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Ahhh who gives a fuck. I'm fine listening to Buck Owens, I
don't need new ground breaking music.


 

offline nacmat on 2004-08-01 15:01 [#01292486]
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1. this thread is great

I love to see this threads about music thoughts

2. I totally disagree with aesthetics thought

why?

because I dont think all sounds have been already used and
because I think there are still lots of ways of composing
music we havent still invented or discovered

and also:

there is always something else to create or discover... I am
sure people never thought there would ever exist a music
more "strange" than stravinski´s when they listened to it
80 years ago


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-08-01 15:07 [#01292495]
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when someone says something like this, in the end it says
more about their own imagination than anything else.


 

offline nobsmuggler from silly mid-off on 2004-08-01 15:12 [#01292504]
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I always wonder with things like this, as to the person who
will make something groundbreaking with music for and
example, has never tried to play a synth, guitar etc... or
stare till your eyes hurt at a pc to make a track

just a thought


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2004-08-01 15:13 [#01292505]
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damn right!

evolume:

yeah, and your part includes marriage with a beautiful girl
:)
go go go evolume!


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2004-08-01 15:34 [#01292529]
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it is logic that I speak with my own imagination...

there were a few moments in history where there happened
something completely new, the piano for example

the creation of electronic gear ment a whole new direction
of making music, which many artists took the most out of it
by now



 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2004-08-01 15:38 [#01292536]
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no way.
affordable computing is only 10-20 years old. we've only
seen the beginning of what computers will be able to do with
music.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2004-08-01 15:39 [#01292538]
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look how long the guitar was around before "grunge"
happened.


 

offline nacmat on 2004-08-01 15:44 [#01292546]
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yeah its like look what electric guitars did in 1955 and
what they did in 97


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2004-08-01 15:57 [#01292561]
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And who says that electronic music has ended music as a
groundbreaking artform?


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2004-08-01 16:06 [#01292572]
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they changed the sound, but it wasn´t new


 


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