buzzsaw wrote:hence we experiment with our songwriting in order to challenge ourselves to learn something that sounds wrong or out of order.
How is this 'experimental' though?
If it is something that can be learned (thus exists in concept) then the result of the 'experiment' is already known, isn't it? Unless the experiment is 'can we play it' and that is the same challenge faced by a teen-pop act, or Iron Maiden.
Experiment.:
'What will happen if I plug my guitar into an amp and hit it with a panda?'
Result: noise.
Experiment ends.
If I repeat the 'experiment' then although one might accurately describe the act as a repeat of an experiment, it certainly can't be described as 'experimental' since the result is already known (result: noise).
Further, we already had an idea of the result since it's unlikely that hitting a guitar with a panda would result in something wholly unlike hitting it with a teddy bear and thus even the first act wasn't significantly experimental.
'Experimental' music seldom seems anything of the sort. If it involves guitars, voice and drums then the only experimental possibility surely relates to the reaction of an audience rather than the actually noise created; 'how will the audience react to this noise?' and that 'experiment' is as applicable to the Bee Gees as somebody playing a monkey.