"I would love to know what people here think of this" - coalport
Some lovely sounds and "atmospheres" but IMO, thats it.
This does not mean that I would never buy an album like this or listen to it from start to finish - but I need to be in a really spaced-out state to enjoy stuff like this - right now I find it boring after a few minutes.
The Sea-organ of Zadar is, to me, far more 'musical' than the matrix produced stuff in the above (and I could listen to it continuously and not get terminally bored) .. Some how, the matrix produces (IMO) comparatively boring sequences with little / no element of surprise.. Jump the track ahead (or back) to any point and usually there is no noticeable discontinuity.. At least with Zadar there are some unexpected musical "events".
So - I can enjoy structured music composed by humans, and I can enjoy (some) experimental music composed by humans, and I almost always enjoy music (like birdsong or Zadar) "composed" by nature.. But, as yet, I have not found any music produced by computers or other logic machines that I really enjoy - and continumata hasn't changed this for me.
In fact, I find this album something of a puzzle... You have one of the best interfaces on which to play music, but instead you leave the instrument to play itself ??! ... It really reminds me a bit of the TerrorMeenie with its Any-Mug sound engine.. At least with the Meenie the interface is crap so leaving the sound engine to "do its own thing" would make some sense...
Fred.
