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It's quite pleasant and I can imagine listening to this for pleasure occasionally. Equate it with a piece for untuned percussion and then maybe it's not quite
by andybak 9y ago
It's quite pleasant and I can imagine listening to this for pleasure occasionally.
Equate it with a piece for untuned percussion and then maybe it's not quite so unusual. The first sections of Steve Reich's Drumming are pitchless and very listenable. It's composing purely with rhythm.
- blt 9y agosee also: lots of techno music
- logicallee 9y agoSo, there are two sides to every story and maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle. What follows is just a counterpoint to your experience: I put the piece on and after realizing it is quite suited to background music I switched tasks and did something else, intending to have it on in the background. For me it failed this usage, because despite my initial impression I had to stop it after a few minutes. I rarely have to do that with any music I put on in the background - so it's not like I have high standards. On a different note: when I read the title I imagined it being a percussive use of the note, like drums, with a repetitive techno-like approach - so I thought it would be quite easy to fill three hours with just the one note. The part I listened to had no such percussive beat either. So within the constraints of the I suspect someone else might take a wildly different and end up with something in some sense better. I know, I know, "everyone's a critic..."