Sweaty Machines
And smooth Modulations
Dehumanization, obviously, remains the common complaint about all this electronic music, as if listening to it or making music with computers and machines is going to end up limiting our relationships with other people. Maybe so. But from a musical standpoint, it is tremendously exciting to witness the rise of something like jungle or drum 'n' bass, two genres of music that would not have been possible without digital technology, a fact that Modulations wisely emphasizes. To paraphrase what Pierre Henry says in his segment, electronic instruments finally make it possible for composers to output the complex music swirling around in their heads; electronic music, too, is questioning traditional ideas about the span of emotions that music should address, or whether emotional impact is the point at all. Perhaps most important, electronic instruments' accessibility, variety and power make it possible for people who are musical but have no training to participate in the creation of a new art form. Their input is having a huge impact on the sound of music and on what we consider music to be.
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