Re: OT (ish) Role of a laptop in music

[Andreas Wetterberg <awetterberg@post.cybercity.dk>]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't that more or less one genre? 
experimental, beat oriented electronic music? ;-)

I'd take a close look on the experimental side of it, esp. the IDM and 
perhaps noise-genres, some of which use custom scripting to generate 
output - this approach is getting pretty close to AI-participation and 
it's very interesting to see and hear software interacting with the 
player in quite complex ways.

Andreas

Dan Mayfield wrote:
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> Hi all
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> I'm writing an essay on 'the wider role of the laptop in music' I have 
> to research three different styles where it is used, I thought I might 
> just throw this into the 'community' if anyone has any interesting input 
> it would be appreciated.  Styles that spring to mind so far are, 
> experimental, electronic(a) and some kind of beat orientated music
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> Cheers
> Dan
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