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Thoughts from the mind of TazmnianDv@..., 10-07-2002:

>Maybe some of this debate could be eased by the notion that dance music is
>sound composing, while music is melodic and harmonic composing? Its like we
>are trying to a judge a new type of entity which doesn't really fit the
>traditional definition.

I think this was exactly what I said in my longish post last Monday. 
Indeed I think you hit the mail on the head here.  Somehow 
trance-dance-etc is a new tool with which those of a more classical 
background still aren't comfortable.

>But clearly something is still lacking in oiur minds (at least mine)...just
>as we might feel that calling the writers of dance music "composers" is not
>quite right.

This, as I also tried to put forward earlier, has imo to do with the 
fact that the entire trance-dance movement is too limited.  To repeat 
a metaphore I used a few days ago: why stick to using a saw alone if 
you've also got a hammer and a screwdriver?  Trance brought composers 
the saw, which in the end is just a tool and shouldn't be a means in 
itself.

It's like Cage throwing dice to write a composition: doing that a 
couple of times can be (and probably has been) tremendously 
liberating for composers all around the world.  Keep on doing that 
for the next 10 years, and you're just plain silly.

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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