Re: [microsound] -oval and mainstream ears

[Sean Cooper <scooper@xxxxxxxx>]

they were bucking for brownie pts.  ;)

sc

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, caleb~k wrote:

> 
> 
> i played some first year digital media students oval...1994 and the new one.
>       most said they quite liked it...found it listenable and even 
> nice...esp the old stuff...<
>          >>none of them had ever heard it
> 
> now that was a head spin for me as i remember being shocked in '94 
> when it came out..
>        .i used to listen to a lot of ambient music and here was ambient
> with the high snaps of the cd glitch ringing thru.   it hurt and 
> confused my head...like a review by paul schutze in the wire said at 
> the time
> 
> "Oval have done something subtly violent to Electronica. Once you 
> have heard this, things sound differentŠ"
> 
> now the kids find nothing hard to hear in the sound...even when i 
> played it really loud and got lots of complaints from the surrounding 
> classes..<<
> 
> .kk