Message 20/22
Date: 08-Nov-00 @ 08:12 PM -
RE: Industrial music theory?
I'm going to have to side jump on H's side on this despite the fact he's a friggin' arsehole to listen to on these boards.
Music theory is all good and great, but it has it's limitations. There would never be industrial music or manifestos such as "The Art of Noise" (? not sure whether that's the exact title; too use to thinking about the group by the same name inspired by the manifesto) if music theory didn't fall short.
Why does it fall short?
Simply because it cannot encompass all the ways to create music & sound. Current musical theory feels like Newtonian physics with a couple of touch ups here and there to account for non-Western music and some recent changes to music in the past century or so. Music theory is simply the general principles to music and the study thereof, but unfortunately it hardly even encompasses that!
In response to the original question, what the person is asking doesn't even need to be taught through rigid music theory. It can be taught by listening to and examining music and sound without needing to worry about what scale or key something is in. Not only that - it will take the poster further in typically undefined genres such as industrial.