MOTM

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)