Subject: Re: [EA] Impact of electronic/techno music
From: A Dontigny (ad@electrocd.com)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 16:36:15 EDT
> > DJing is to art what froot loops is to breakfast.
Hum
So in 2002, we still need to justify DJing as a legitimate musical
statement? Why not see it simply as some kind of home-made sampler?
Anybody can buy a guitar and only use it to sing already existing
popular love songs (using that guitar as a device for un-ethical
copyright infringement -- ooh!). On the opposite, someone can use a
turntable as a very legit futurist noise maker (transforming a playback
device into a very engaging instrument!).
For several years now, Martin Tétreault uses a custom-made four-armed
turntable which he uses both with or without records. The works of
Christian Marclay and Otomo Yoshihide also provides excellent examples
of turntables as valid musical instruments.
And, please remember, in the early 80's people were saying things like
"anybody can rap on a beat", "anybody can scratch", "this is not real
music, it's just a trend that will quickly fade away". blah blah blah.
Didn't the last 20 years prove these statements wrong? Could you say
that these DJs aren't "live" enough?
Even if you specifically target "club DJ's" (less scratch), you cannot,
on a simple basis of taste, dismiss their creative input because it is
"only mixing songs (that I don't like) together". I recently heard the
Bernard Parmegiani composition "Du pop à l’âne" (1969) and it is just
plain that, "mixing already existing songs together" both european
classical music and american pop-rock. Can anyone on this list argue
that it is not music???
A Dontigny
assist@electrocd.com
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