GA misinformations (was Re: triphop, garggggg)

[Jeremy David]

On 2/24/06, Chris Rapier <rapier1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/23/06, TERROR FIRMA SKY <terror_firma_sky at yahoo.com> wrote:
> While this might be true for a specific genre of music it is
> distinctly untrue for other genres. In some genres clarity, subtlety,
> and nuance count for a lot and if all of those are being drowned out
> by poor acoustis there is no way for an artists to 'play around' it.
> So while Neubauten can often transform an underpass into an intregral
> part of their performance I can't imagine Miles Davis or Art Blakely
> doing the same. not because Neubauten are better artists - but because
> they are approaching art in different ways for different effects and
> meaning.

Yes, exactly. There are artists for whom bad acoustics are just
another tool to use, but for most that's not the case. In those
special cases, the bad acoustics cease to be bad for that particular
situation. That doesn't make one style better than another, but it's
quite unfair to demand, "Hey you, art guy. You're going to make art
and you're going to use these exact tools to do it whether you like it
or not."

While Andy Dufrene can build a tunnel to freedom with nothing but a
spoon, no one would even think that it would be a good idea to hire an
engineer to build the Chunnel and allow him to use only your mom's
dinette set.