RE: [microsound] Seeing and being seen (was laptop ethics)

[Gregory Taylor <gtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>we do not work for the spectacle of the end of the world
>but for the end of the spectacle world
>[guy debord]

Some people need spectacles, if only to drive and to
read. If I were to take Peter Nyboer's advice about
making "real" music to heart, I suppose that I'd be
out there drumming and keening. In that case, we might
say I was making a spectacle of myself. While it 
might not be that entertaining, it certainly would
not be the end of the world. "What guy?" "De bored."

>no musician, no audience, no spectacle
>but cultural experiences

cultural experiences with no musos or audience or
spectacle more generally call to mind someone abandoned
by their children at a rest home, a single mother
staving off exhaustion with a cut of bad coffee at the
end of her double shift, or a bunch of skinheads using
cell phones to coordinate triangulating their post
soccer match punch-ups.

The cultural experience worth mentioning for my radio
program this evening involves segueing between an old
No-Man single which includes a borrowed film monologue
about a girl talking about falling in love while skinny
dipping straight into the title track of Kurt Ralske's
Miau Miau International release <amorpheus> and having
a young woman call the station to ask whether or not I
intended the steady pulse of Kurt's piece to represent
the young woman's heart. Of course, I said, "Yes."

Go Kurt, go!

Gregory

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