failure redux

[kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

well I guess my failure was to be clear about what type of 'failure' I was
referring to...I was speaking more of systemic or technological failure,
ie: glitches, CD skips, dropouts, systemic noise etc used in the making of
this style of music, not 'failure' on an aesthetic level...but the thread
has certainly been interesting nonetheless...a happy accident...very Cagean...
speaking of which: I'm reading "The Roaring Silence : John Cage : A Life"
by David Revill and am finding the concept of "detachment from the
compositional process" a good antidote for ego based authorship...chance
and indeterminacy are good ways to open up creative possibilities on an
artistic level...

some opinions on the 'failure' thread:
- time spent on a piece is irrelevant
- aesthetic sophistication rarely occurs in 'knock-off' work created by
casually making a "glitch-like" piece
- the creative process is different for everyone but artists need to
develop it
- I have heard work in this genre that is not successful (won't name names)
because it sounds like it was created in the following manner:

>i can take a bunch of my dsp-based software, create a few
>relatively nice (in my opinion) sounds, bang them out at random
>while recording it and call it microscopic music. if i'm really
>adventurous i can even have them loop in time in something like Max
>and bring stuff in and out, thus giving the impression of a
>kind of structure or composition.
>
>here's the clincher: this will take me all but a whopping twenty
>minutes to do at most. it's easy, painless, and most people couldn't
>tell the difference between that and something that took someone several
>months to complete.

- it is naive to think that this sort of work will fool serious listeners
(for long)...

conundrum:
- I had collected 5 large cardboard boxes (used for moving) of demo tapes
while I ran Silent Records that were mostly made by people who were
artistically clueless
- there are artists who can 'spit in a paper bag' and sell thousands of copies

just some random thoughts
KIM

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