Re: [microsound] RE-SEND: [microsound] microsonic materialism

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well it is quite ironic that my e-mail is glitching (in exactly the same way twice) a commentary on glitch fetishism!  The remodelled part of the original post is below.  Perhaps I should turn the compare the posted and original texts, use gematria to convert the resulting ASCII differentials into MIDI controller values, and then turn the whole thing into a glitch album.  No, that was a joke...
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yet at a certain point the machine becomes so dominant in the associative matrix of musical pleasure that it draws desiring energy toward itself as the object of that pleasure.  With a fetishized love of the machine, it is natural that the warts and farts of that machine too will be incorporated into the expanding fetish.  And it is in the generalized gear fetish rather than in digital culture that one might locate the desiring structure of the glitch obsession.  Here I think, oddly enough, that at its extreme glitch music meets the similarly machine-cathected analog synthesizer music of perhaps five years ago, in that harddrives and code fragments are printed now on CD covers where centerfold shots of impossibly obscure synthesizer modules appeared not many years ago.  All of these devices and their various protruberances and flatulences are mere accidents on the way toward music - which I would add is materialist in its manufacture and distribution but not necessarily in its experie
nce.  A friend once showed me a fetish magazine she had used in the bibliography of a paper for school, and the issue's most memorable photo was that of a high-heeled shoe walking across a sea of turkey basters - the month's winner of the dream-made-real photo contest.  I fear an obsessional discourse of the glitch is within binocular-viewing distance of the same sea, so perhaps swimming gear and beach towels should be fetched.

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