mikes wrote:
>I think it's pretty interesting to watch someone modify a large
complicated modular synth in realtime to generate new and interesting
sounds.<
But that's not performing; that's twiddling.
I honestly don't mean any disrespect to RR--I just don't get it. Can
you imagine somebody actually ∗writing∗ and performing 80 minutes of
music? It would be a monumental task--like Bach's B Minor Mass or
something. Why would people travel long distances to hear a sequencer
go chugga-chugga-thump-thump with a twiddle here and there?
I love the recording quality of "Bestiary" (it is so clean you can
eat off of it) but where's the structure? I just hear a lot of
amorphous sound effects and droning--and that quickly grows tiresome.
Did Subotnick et al. raise the bar too high too early on? I'm
begining to wonder.
johnm (not making trouble--genuinely confused)