From: Lord Ruthven <dasfestistzuendeaus@yahoo.de> wrote: btw, *comparisons* between Kraftwerk and Stockhausen are ridiculous. it's like comparing the Beatles with Brahms. ...or Andy Warhol with Picasso. I actually sense an element of improvisation in some of Stockhausen's work (Stimmung, for example) which is missing from Kraftwerk's. Perhaps the only link (apart from both being German postwar generation, with associated cultural experiences) is that they both seek to realise a kind of universal music, one "classical" the other "pop". Otherwise the idea of a link is probably a throwback to the early 70s when any and every kind of electronic music was grouped together by record stores and in the minds of reviewers, as if the common use of electronic equipment implied a kind of conceptual kinship as well. Nowadays, of course, all music is synthesized to some degree -- either the instrumentation or during the recording/mixing process -- unless you're listening to voices or acoustic instruments sung/played "live". -------------------------------------------------------- You too can have your own email address from Eurosport. http://www.eurosport.com
richard.marston@eurosport.com wrote:
From: Lord Ruthven <dasfestistzuendeaus@yahoo.de> wrote:
btw, *comparisons* between Kraftwerk and Stockhausen are ridiculous. it's like comparing the Beatles with Brahms.
Why would that be ridiculous? I was in a Turkish restaurant the other day, where they play live music too. I was really surprised how very modern and funky that old music sounds. The belly dancer had a pair of those tiny "finger-cymbals" on each hand, making rhythms that would fit a modern trance record VERY well.
Nowadays, of course, all music is synthesized to some degree -- either the instrumentation or during the recording/mixing process -- unless you're listening to voices or acoustic instruments sung/played "live".
All classic musical instruments are synthesizers of a kind too, guitars don't grow on trees. (Heh, who said this?) Perhaps the difference is the way that playing is controlled these days. Sequencers don't get tired of repeating the same melody, and modern sound processing with all kinds of delays, samplers, compressors, limiters etc etc gives us sounds that are new and exciting. Rick Jansen __ rja@euronet.nl http://www.euronet.nl/~rja ____________________________________________ S&H's a module and s&h's looking good
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