Subject: RE: Rhythm / Beat in EA
From: Adrian Moore (a.j.moore@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 11:33:28 EDT
and both Stockhausen and RDJ
will appear at the Barbican centre in October 2001.
www.barbican.org.uk
talk about repetition!
Jean-Marc Pelletier wrote:
>Interviewed by a radio station, Stockhausen was asked to comment on a number
>of electronica tapes he had been sent. This is what he had to say about
>Richard D. James of Aphex Twin fame:
>
>"I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work Song Of The
>Youth, which is electronic music, and a young boy's voice singing with
>himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African
>repetitions, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and
>he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it were varied to some extent and
>if it did not have a direction in its sequence of variations. "
>
>To which Richard D. James replied (in The Wire):
>
>"Mental! I've heard that song before; I like it. I didn't agree with him. I
>thought he should listen to a couple of tracks of mine: "Didgeridoo", then
>he'd stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to. Do you reckon
>he can dance? You could dance to Song of the Youth, but it hasn't got a
>groove in it, there's no bassline."
>
>Anyway, always made me chuckle.
>
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