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On Defense the Term "Intelligent Dance Music"
2015-12-27 20:25:45 Post No. 61302532
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On Defense the Term "Intelligent Dance Music"
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2015-12-27 20:25:45
Post No. 61302532
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Now this is a thing I've been thinking about for a while now, and I think that it might make sense for someone else as well. If I say anything non-sensical or crazy just correct me, but try and bear with me for a second.
People have been saying that the term "Intelligent" Dance Music is pretentious, and in the way it is understood it really is, and most IDM musicians think it is a stupid thing to say. But, I never really understood the term "Intelligent" as relating to the people who listen to the music, but the music itself.
Do you know when you get to see those "intelligent freezing" refrigerators, or "intelligent zooming" televisions? Well according to wikitionary this kind of stuff means "Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability." as in a machine that is able to know when to work a certain way, or is programmed to "think" and make things following a certain pattern.
(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intelligent)
When I think of IDM, or "intelligent music", I think about the average IDM beats. They tend to follow weird patterns and variations. The panning and tones go crazy, the speed of the beat and the drums are played are presented as if being created by a "thinking machine" off-top, thus the beat is almost "alive", creating patterns for itself.
Intelligent Dance Music, to me, means "programmed, self-varying music created by electronics", the kind of beat-based music that acts like a computer is creating the beats, being programmed to do it.
I don't know how well I expressed myself with this but, do you guys understand what I mean? I'm not saying I know why the term was created, or that I think this is a fact. I'm just giving my view of this. What y'all think?
