I suppose my own contribution to this dialogue--just jotting down some random thoughts away from the horrible glare of exposure of the main page---ri--i-ght--would be that I'm interested in using certain programs more or less exactly the way they were intended but searching for psychological abuse, abuse of attitude, and abuse of context. MSPaint and Paintbrush are toy programs and very mechanical so to do "classical" or even "expressionist" drawing on them is a potentially jarring category shift. Similarly with the music, these synths have evolved to "play techno" so I'm interested in "playing techno wrong" in a way that's still entertaining and I suppose still techno but calling attention to its limitations and hidebound genre conventions (drum and bass must be played a certain way, etc.). Conscious amateurism and irony would be my way of nailing the violin to the wall. This overlaps somewhat with what John is saying about just using the damn instruments, and seeing what comes out and where you can take it.
[A problem, though, is I keep producing stuff that's kind of "good" and I don't know how to deal with it. Part of me wants to be a real techno guy. Or a real artist. Or whatever. Uh oh, this is getting too candid, I may have to delete this.]
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[A problem, though, is I keep producing stuff that's kind of "good" and I don't know how to deal with it. Part of me wants to be a real techno guy. Or a real artist. Or whatever. Uh oh, this is getting too candid, I may have to delete this.]
- tom moody 3-08-2005 9:54 pm