> consider this: > > If you take an elaborate Opera, you can theoretically distill > it, all while > keeping its general feel, down to techno. Ambient may or may > not work, it > depends on your approach. But you could distill the Opera down to one > crucial segment (which probably was the musical seed for the composer > interesting enough) consisting of a few notes, and repeat it... > > so it could be said that techno is the universal music in > that all music can > be distilled down to techno... i think what you are actually saying is that all music, techno included can be reduced to a few simple notes that hold its meaning
reducing other music to a few notes, and repeating makes techno...which makes it a meta-creation from those notes, like distilling down to the essence(notes) then building back up from there. > Another example, Beethoven's 9th, the "Ode to Joy" movement. > You can easily > see that there are simply a few key notes in which the entire > symphony is > based off of. If you took those key notes, distilled them > further into an > unrecognizable sound, overlaid it with a simple rhythm, you > would have a > *powerful* techno track... and here you are talking about adding to the distilled essence, which in turn further waters down the essence, so you could say that if you distill a techno track to its "hook", or a few notes that represent that track then you are distilling it down to ITS essence... not the other way around
