Re: Music Descriptions

[Doug Wyatt <doug@sonosphere.com>]

At 2:11 -0400 6/30/1997, future perfect wrote:
> Hi!
>       I'd like to know how fellow loopers/experimental musicians describe
> their music to people. For instance: I'm always faced with re-vamping my
> promotional materials and looking for new ways to describe what I do.
>       I also get a lot of questions at performances like, 'Uh, what type 
>of
> music is that??'
>       Are there any poetic/creative/insightful/concise descriptions 
>floating
> around out there?
>       Another concern is how to describe my music in a few words over the
> phone to venue owners/bookers. Launching into a rant about ambient or
> experimental music is rather esoteric and I gag on the phrase, 'new
> age', but to the unenlightened <g> that is a simple (however sickening)
> description for the masses. Most people have a hard time relating to
> music (or anything!) that doesn't fit neatly into a popular genre.
>       Shameless plug: check out the new sound clips at my web site and 
>the
> availability of my new CD. Yeah!

Hi Dave,

Thought I'd delurk for this one ... a fairly similar discussion is
happening on another list I'm on, right down to the pros and cons of the
"new age" label.  Like it or not, a record store consists of only so many
Really Big Categories, and New Age is often the only choice.  But of
course, within each of those really big categories are many subcategories
... some mentioned were "contemporary instrumental" and
"ambient/space/electronic" or some such.  I found the latter a reasonable
bin to put at least some of what I do into.

Make up your own three or four words if necessary :)

Nice web page; I'd like to hear the music.  How's the tour been going?

Doug


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