On Fri, November 4, 2005 3:48 am, darnistle wrote: > Its an altogether different musical form and aesthetic from the > traditional legacy European court and folk musics. Why should musical > standards from a certain corner of the world several centuries ago be > used as a measuring stick for a modern musical form that focuses on > rhythmic interplay and aural nuance more often than it does on > traditional harmonic/melodic development?
i dont consider tribal drumming to be "noise" yet it adheres to none of the principles that make european music what it is. good try though. what it IS about is feeling, and someone making noises in their studio and saying "boy, that sounds cool, let me stick a kick drum under that and release it" is not evoking a feeling. theyre being cynical and wasting my time and theirs. but of course theyre making money selling it to hip white kids. awesome for them i guess. tom
