02-25-2006, 03:09 AM
The Jays Wrote:this isn't even about taste. you are making the statement that electronically derived compositions should not be considered music, because they don't use instruments.
I'm of the opinion that using a synth and ONLY a synth isnt making music. Its all preprogrammed and not organic to me. Synths/keyboards have their place as a background instrument, but to use it exclusively to make a "track" to me doesnt take much skill since the hard part (making the sounds) is removed.
Hence, house music to me isnt music. it's noise. NIN doesn't use synths exclusively, and while Trent certainly uses them often, he manages to balance it out with guitar & drum tracks.
Another example - Radiohead. I dig it when they make use of sounds as background or moods, but still alllow for guitar/bass/drum (like OK Computer) but when they went off on their experimental phase I got turned off because it was all noise to me, no real sense of music just sounds from synths.
country doesnt use synths, it just sucks.