Go listen to Ludger Rémy play the harpsichord and then tell me about how digital musicians are different in this way... :)
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@mcc This makes sense to me too. I’m trying to think of examples of the opposite. Are there cases of primarily acoustic/live musicians bringing their immediacy, touch, group tightness, etc. (ie, things valued or done well by them) to an electronic setting?
I know James Holden and others try to push for more “humanised” electronica but I don’t think they started out as non-electronic musicians?
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@mcc @dpiponi I was thinking about other artists that live in this organic electronic space or previously played in more traditional bands:
- Kieran Hebden played guitar in Fridge before releasing “folktronica” as Four Tet
- Jon Hopkins trained as a classical pianist before becoming a producer
- Underworld were a funk and synth-pop band before shifting to techno
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@mdreid That's an interesting question. I'm more easily able to come up with examples of acoustic musicians who have what feels to me like an electronica-like approach to timbres.
You might find something like your question by looking at people who were early adopters of electronic tech— the Beatles or whatever. Frank Zappa's "Jazz from Hell" album. It's often commented including by Reich himself that Steve Reich brought a jazz drummer's sensibility to his avant garde/tech demonstration pieces
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@mcc Good point about Reich. Herbie Hancock has some weird vocoder stuff that might fit too. Oh, and “Rockit”! :)
Go listen to Ludger Rémy play the harpsichord and then tell me about how digital musicians are different in this way... :)
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@abhayakara I don't believe I did say that