> > Call me dumb but I always wonder how it is that Mills' music is considered > in such theoretical terms, even he speaks of it in this way. I guess if I > composed I would be very intuitive and mood-based and think not in terms of > theories but emotion and experience and concepts based on that. Not that it > would be like conventional music necessarily, but that would be the driving > 'scale', if you like. >
i had a think about this and my back yard theory, for what it's worth, is that because music is invisible and intangible - something ambiguous (electronic music particularly so) - people try to describe its properties etc by likening them to those of other abstract things that we might be conscious of such as emotion, metaphysics, the future - maybe even (some) drugs or humour. maybe that's why we all get so into talking about it - it's all part of coming to terms with the experience.. chris
