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RE: [microsound] goldberg variations



Gregory,
I'm not going to get my hackles up, but I find it strange that the main
point you found to pull out of my note was some kind of "cooler-than-thou"
hipsterist resentment that Goldberg was laying bare my beloved scene for the
masses.  Perhaps I'm misreading you?  That certainly wasn't my intent -- I'm
just tired of mainstream (or, perhaps better, non-genre-specific)
publications not being able to address electronic music (which, I realize,
is a problematic category -- Chemical Brothers and Francesco Lopez having
not a hell of a lot in common) for what it is, immanently, instead of for --
as someone else on this list pointed out -- what it's expected to *do*.

And as for Kakutani, I'll slag her any day for being, to my mind,
conservative to the point of being proscriptive. (Does anyone else remember
that piece from the NYT Magazine?)  She's the perfect example, to my mind,
of someone who doesn't bother to try to get *inside* the logic of a work (or
a genre).  If it doesn't conform to the categories she's already privileged
(like individualism, expression, originality, etc.) then she summarily
dismisses it.  (You may accuse me of doing the same thing, and simply
sitting on opposite sides of the fence from her... I'll consider that.)
  
anyway,
p