Andrew Lyons,

     I know what you mean. If it is so simple I would challenge anyone to
try to put a good piece of music together using the techno or electronica
format. As with all things there is more there than meets the eye at first
glance.

BTW, Mozart, among other "greats", wrote dance music (minuets).

MJR

http://www.innerlightpub.com/rhoadsmith
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Lyons 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: re techno bashing


> In trying to understand techno, people make the mistake of evaluating
> it using the one dimensional musical comprehension of other traditions.
They
> fail to see beyond the complexity or lack thereof in the beat. The best
way
> to understand techno is to think of it as being like a sonic version of a
> visual stereogram.
>
> When you first look at it, its just a whole lot of repeating colours.
> Not much to it really, but if you look long enough, or know how to look,
and
> the composer knows what they are doing, you see straight through into a
new
> space.
>
> Plus its good for 140bpm double time dancing if you like that kind of
thing.
>
>

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Michael Rhoades wrote:
> 
>      I know what you mean. If it is so simple I would challenge anyone to
> try to put a good piece of music together using the techno or electronica
> format. As with all things there is more there than meets the eye at first
 ^^^^^^^^
Format!  That's just it!  It's a bloody template in Cakewalk.

Wayne  

> >
> > When you first look at it, its just a whole lot of repeating colours.
> > Not much to it really, but if you look long enough, or know how to look,
> and
> > the composer knows what they are doing, you see straight through into a
> new
> > space.
> >
> > Plus its good for 140bpm double time dancing if you like that kind of
> thing.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 

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