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On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:37 AM, kay'lon rushing <k3zz21@gmail.com> wrote: >>Intelligent Dance Music. > What are some basic things I should know about the style as far as > composing? Why not listen to some IDM to find out about that? The point in IDM is that there are no rules and that you can't dance to the music unless following some highly intelligent strategy for how to move your body related to the sounds coming at you. IMHO this attitude has a bit of a Dada revival to it. So how to produce IDM? The best rule how to fail crating IDM would be to follow what you hear others are doing. This is special, because in most musical genres "doing covers" or parroting can lead you to rather decent results. Not so in IDM and that makes it difficult to talk about. It is very much up to every composer to work out his own language/dialect, and we are all different. The biggest challenge for me, in IDM producing, is to avoid using melodic fundaments in composing. One trick is to focus on sound, movement and evolution (this may even mean crating music that is static in the sense that it doesn't evolve somewhere - but usually there is a flow). On the technical side you can try out methods to sequence, cut up, slice and dice sound fragments - because normally it is not possible to directly play IDM; you may play a sequencer to create IDM on-the-fly but your role is more like the director's than being a musician. As for software anything goes. From cutting up and reordering audio files on the screen to setting up systems of inter modulating sequencer mosules like in Numerology or custom built Max patches. Oh, we must not forget to mention Mobius here as well, since you can script ultra fast and weird sample mutilation. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen