-----Original Message----- From: Neil A. Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: My (neil.simpson at strath.ac.uk) post to 313
Hi, I noticed your reply on the digest ... it seems that as per usual my message did not get through... would you be able for the sake of conversation to post the thing for me with this message attached ... so as not to confuse the rest of the subscribers where this came from? > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Birchmeier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 10:10 AM > To: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: RE: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life - 'Degree level dance' > > > > Thats a good question - but does the theory take away from the > > music or add > > to it? Does it make any difference? Not on the dancefloor, when I just > > want to dance and generally don't care, but I do like reading the > > UR patter > > on the sleeves! Don't you think that sometimes it can help to give more > > perspective on where the producer is coming from, though? Reading it is > > optional. > > I almost look at this question another way, thinking that dancing > to it is optional. Think about how many hours on average per > week that you spend dancing to music relative to how many hours a > week that you spend listening to techno. > > So many times people look at this music as strictly dance music. > I spend at least 8 hours a day at work listening to "electronic > dance music" and never get out of my chair and dance around the > office. And when I get home and sit down to do some reading or > when I'm in the car racing around to blaring music, I never break > into dance. > > So for people such as myself (I tend to think that I'm the norm > rather than the exception), I'd rather listen to music that > engages me -- cerebrally or emotionally -- rather than music that > makes me want to dance. Also I agree that great music connects on all levels with mind/body/soul - and this is roughly what I was driving at, in that the authors seem to think techno is only now worthwhile on an esoteric intellectual level... though it is clear also to anyone who genuinely participates in the scene that techno crafted for the purpose of the 'The Dance' still has the same, if not more, impact on the dancefloor. Whether you like theory or not this does not change. -neil
