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> From: Philip Sherburne <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: 'microsound' <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> *sigh*.
> I'm so very tired of Salon -- they've always gotta work an angle.
>

and nothing builds community so much as the shared dis.

>
> The complete and total exclusion of the possibility that FORM counts for
> anything

form? *so* twentieth century.

> What's Golberg's usual slant?  She's a familiar name, but somehow I feel
> like she usually writes pieces on mainstream electronic musicians.  In fact,
> I'm pretty sure that's her forte.
>
> Reminds me of Michiko Kakutani's column from the NY Times Magazine a few
> years back, when "electronica" and the Chem Bros had their big boom; she
> accused it of being "cold" and "antihumanist."

ah, but i'll read ms. kakutani somewhat more seriously than ms. goldberg
any day. thanks for not indulging in ageist putdowns here - it'd have been
an easy lob in terms of ms. k.

more generally, wouldn't some of you have found it problematic to have
someone provide a sober and well-reasoned introduction to the field of
sufficient clarity and craft that lots of those people that "we" aren't would
have taken as an invitation? the general currency of cool would have
devalued and plummeted if lots of "those" people suddenly understood
what "we" value....

for the record: i think that anything which serves as a place to begin and
invites others into the discourse is too good a chance to pass up, although
some versions require more work on our part [to rectify the howlers] and
others force us to confront the thought that, despite our best attempts,
we *still* think that we're smarter/cooler/more observant and "those"
people. mr. eno once talked at some length about the dangers of trusting
your "fans" - or those who generally claim to "value" a kind of work,
citing them as an intertial force acting against innovation. i always like
to ask how inertial i'm being.

sorry. back to lurking.

gregory
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