leisuremuffin wrote:String, forgive me, it's just that I write music that is somewhat part of the very long and very wide traditions of both dance and electronic music and i cringe when i read opinions that are dismissive of those traditions. I do take it a little bit personally, you know? It seems like there's a lot of people that think that dance music and electronic music both started in the 1990's and are only certain things when in truth electronic music has been around as long as electricity and dance music for as long as people have been able to dance. I'm not saying that you're that ignorant, but i will admit that your first post got under my skin and annoyed me a little bit.
I understand. It's the stuffy academic in me that tends to put down dance music, but I don't mean to offend. I've listened to and written my fair share of it.
In fact my reason for specifically calling out electronic dance music is precisely because the electronic music tradition is so much more broad, especially in terms of the use of musical parameters outside of the conventional note-based paradigms (e.g. timbral manipulation, spectral morphing, etc.). I'm talking about electroacoustic music mostly here, although the lines are less and less rigidly defined.
So no offense meant and all good.
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