Re: [microsound] whoopsy

[Sean Cooper <scooper@xxxxxxxx>]

At 03:04 AM 3/26/00 EST, you wrote:
>At the end of the self definition-by-exclusion process, one finds that 
>inclusion of some sort is more or less inevitable. 
>Are the terms "glitch", "post-digital aesthetic", "microsound"- less hollow 
>then terms such as "house", "2-step", "half-step-fuckstep"???
>Must musical development rely so much on terminology? or is terminology the 
>only thing that really develops in this process?

good point. from www.microsound.org:

	".microsound is not a "genre" mailing list...instead, .microsound 
	  presents itself as a forum for the discussion and exploration 
	  of a more general "digital aesthetic" manifesting across a wide 
	  variety of styles and disciplines."

for the record, any house or two-step or speed-garage or even fuck-step
(whatever that is) that can be reasonably argued to be characteristic of a
loosely articulated "digital aesthetics" (again, see www.microsound.org for
more on this) should be considered on-topic. random calls for compilation
entries by otherwise non-participating listmembers, while certainly more
suspect, will at least be tolerated until such practice becomes abusive.

'nuff said.

sc