"Nik Stoltzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/14/2007 10:11:22 AM:
> When I read the article, especially the bit about being able to > select bits of tracks, I > immediately thought of 'Closer to the Edit' which (for me) actually > diminished the tracks that > comprised it. > > While some people do a great job of mixing fragments of audio > together (and there are plenty of > amazing Ableton mixes out there which do just that) I think there is > something to be said about > the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. > > I am not criticising Richie (other than saying CE didn't do it for > me but is that his fault?) or > cut-and-paste mixing. There are just a lot of points being made > which resonate with what I have > been thinking recently. > > One side of minimal removes elements in order to produce something > more. And then there is the > other side which seems to remove good stuff for the hell of it. Interesting topic. Is it because only small elements/one track out of a multi-track tune that the message (our invested emotion in the track?) gets lost in the translation? Compare/contrast this with turntablists who cut-up records. The whole unit of the song is there if only for a few seconds. We can recognize the entire tune based on those few seconds and it means something to us. Reminds me of the old game show "Name that Tune" where people got down to minuscule fragments of songs and could name the titles (granted quite a number were crazy wild guesses). What Richie does on CE is pulls apart all of our references and then asks us to have, or whether we have, the same vested interest in those elements. I can imagine that's why CE doesn't do it for some. MEK
