The Tree of mrcury

Please, someone give me something that makes me feel better.

Mondays are just appendixes of Sundays. The real beginning is on Tuesdays!

Check this Pitchfork article out: photography and electronic music compared, intertwined, deconstructed, glorified. Kind of.

Electronic music and photography have more than a few things in common: crucially, both genres’ dependence upon mechanical, electronic and/or digital reproduction. Perhaps more importantly, both genres have lagged behind their older “siblings” (painting or traditional acoustic or electrically amplified music) in becoming fully recognized and validated on their own terms. Far from being a coincidence, their shaky reputations are wholly wrapped up in their reproductive methods.

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Electronic music– especially in its popular, club-oriented forms– remains a second-class citizen, the black sheep of the musical flock, for many of the same reasons that photography was denigrated for so long: Mediated principally by machines, it’s often believed to be inauthentically expressive– the expression not of the artist but of the automatic device he or she wields.

I’m drooling. I’ve also found out about Gabriel Ananda. Nice minimalist techno. I want to do electronic music so bad. It just sound easy! I love it. I miss the good days when I used to compose electronic pieces with ReBirth. That was so fun and easy. That’s what makes it for me: you can basically have a finished product in few hours. I heard Aphex Twin saying how even back in the mid-90’s he had some 150 hours of completed music. Think about it.

As I’m stuck most of the time in the process of deciding when I have to choose between alternatives, I think I’ll better start practising this rule pretty much right now.