If my dad DJed like Rick Wilhite I might actually pay attention to what he said... ;)
I think Wilhite is right in many ways about the stupidity of the electronic music business as a whole, but hasn't that always been the case ever since music became a commodity? Ask Franz Schubert or Charlie Parker... Still, if you look at the reality of what the technology boom of the 90's promised and what the true result of this technology has been, it certainly has lived up to the utopian hype that was floating about, especially in the late nineties... Of course, not everyone bought into the hype even then. Anyway, for me there is no question that our current technology is bringing about certain dystopian results. And the pro-technology crowd, to my mind, just sounds idiotic in there rapturous worship of the latest market trend. It's not really about technology though, it's about the level of human thinking; I don't see many new ideas being introduced and I think that the essential limits of our thinking were really defined in the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century. From my point of view, the new millenium never really arrived. Year 2000 was an illusion. Also, I don't know of any electronic work that has come close to the sophistication of the greatest acoustic music, perhaps because the instruments for such music probably haven't been created, and the techniques are relatively new. I firmly believe that really great things often take multiple generations of human existence to come to fruition. I am certain that such works will exis someday however, I'm not saying that acoustic music is somehow "superior" ... but right now humans do not have the will or the imagination to create such works. ~David On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Martin Dust <mar...@dustscience.com> wrote: > > On 21 Sep 2010, at 18:56, wojciech wrote: > >> -With Rick Wilhite: >> >> http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1245 >> > > It's so, so weird reading an interview from some who's into electronic music > but bangs on like your f*cking dad! > > m
