I\'ve found with "progressive" electronic music, I like it better as an accompaniment to doing something, like writing, driving, etc., because it keeps flowing and changing and propelling you forward.
so what you\'ve actually found, as i pointed out earlier, is music that doesn\'t challenge the listener, that doesn\'t require active listening and is just background noise. that\'s fine, but in no way interesting, to me.
It allows me to access altered states of consciousness in a lucid state.
as should live music. non-electronic music just misses out on the repititiousness required to induce a trance (see my earlier comments about rhthymic entrainment) but just because your brain isn\'t slowing down doesn\'t mean the music is bad or that altered states can\'t be achieved. hell, classical music is the best stuff in the world for producing altered states and that\'s as far from untz as it gets! bluegrass can also produce the same entrainment experience if played long enough. but most bluegrass musicians know not to play a thirty minute bluegrass jam, because at some point, the audience will get bored of the same beat over and over. apparently a lot of kidz these days like to be mind-numbed (as is obvious by the predominant drugs on the scene these days - benzo\'s, h, k, etc...). me, i like to be mind-expanded.
the environment has a really profound effect on the perception of the music.
yes, that\'s true for all types of music.
is a person spinning at a live show not human ?? can they not react to the audience, thrive off their energy?
sure, and that person is called a disc jockey, *not* a musician. he is playing music, not creating it.
and frankly, i see electronic as a much more compositionally-minded beast in that if you are going to use it, you must be constrained to whatever is pre-programmed. even if there are many choices of programming available, you are still stuck with those choices. what if, in the midst of a jam, you come upon a rhthym, a texture, a mood that has not been pre-programmed? that\'s what i mean by allowing yourselves a limited area within which to play. like painting with only the couple colors you think you\'ll need. what happens if you realize, mid-painting that another color would be an incredible addition, but because you didn\'t think of it beforehand your painting will now suffer.
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