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Original Message Date: 06-Apr-04 @ 07:00 AM - What is electronic music?

casparproject

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So I'm in the psychology wing of the uni I'm currently attending and a display on the wall catches my eye. The topic is something like "Cognitive function and listening to music." There's also a haphazardly placed pic of one of the Yammie grooveboxes on the page, which made me curious. In the first paragraph, I see what seems to be a very closedminded reference to Baroque classical music vs Techno. They refer to Techno as having "no real harmonic or logical construction." Holy shit, I think, where are these ppl getting this information. They try to back the statement up with another bald assertion "techno music is constructed for the purpose of mimicing industrial noise." The freakiest part is that there are references on this project. I'm going to try to find where they got this info, but this is in a post-graduate psych course. I can't believe they are saying this stuff.

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Message 21/33 07-Apr-04 @ 01:09 AM - RE: What is electronic music?

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so why is ET dancing?

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Message 22/33 07-Apr-04 @ 04:19 AM - RE: What is electronic music?

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'cause he's gotta poop real bad and he's saving it for the prof's desk

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Message 23/33 07-Apr-04 @ 07:15 AM - RE: What is electronic music?

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attempts to quantify the value of art/creation amuse me to no end. Like... o- kaaaay...

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Message 24/33 07-Apr-04 @ 02:11 PM - RE: What is electronic music?

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Hmmm. Interesting that... I think there will be a place for electronic music in history.. They taught a chapter on musiqe concrete in my music history course.. That was in '93-93 so it was only a few years old (comparitively). People had the same criticisms about jazz, blues, and ragtime when they were popular as well.

-Craig

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Message 25/33 07-Apr-04 @ 02:24 PM - RE: What is electronic music?

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musique concrete is shite though....

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Message 26/33 07-Apr-04 @ 03:27 PM - RE: What is electronic music?

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but only when you listen to it.

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Message 27/33 07-Apr-04 @ 03:41 PM - RE: What is electronic music?

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if they are still talking about musique concrete now they'll definitly still be talking techno 50 years from now when acid-hillbilly is all the rage.....

i do have to bite my tongue when talking about music with elders....whenever my grandparents ask to hear an example of my stuff i say 'no, you'll hate it' purely cos if it isn't sinatra or country and western they dont consider it music at all.....and their parents probably thought the same about well swing and country and western.....

greg

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Message 28/33 07-Apr-04 @ 04:40 PM - RE: What is electronic music?

craig

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True, it's not very listenable but it did lay the foundation for a lot of electronic music. Cutting up tape loops was sampling before there were samplers.

-Craig

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Message 29/33 08-Apr-04 @ 04:33 PM - RE: What is electronic music?

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I think they are wrong on the "logical construction", but as far as harmony, serious dance music (including techno) does not involve any harmonic complexity.

There is a name for dance music which uses harmonic progressions: it is called "cheese".

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Message 30/33 08-Apr-04 @ 05:35 PM - RE: What is electronic music?

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Why are we arguing about what some smug Fuck said about a GENRE of music anyways?

Make your own innit

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