RE: [microsound] The 'quest for newness'...

[Gunnar Garness <ggarness@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Be sarcastic is you must but I am very serious about this.
I suppose you can find some way of justifying that everyone out there is
producing top notch well thought out electronic music?  Or should we toss
all of our differences in opinion up to relativism  or individual "taste"?
Maybe the point about kids diddling in their powerbooks was a bit overly
dramatic but I am concerned that the overuse of the term avante garde dulls
it's impact.

Gunnar

-----Original Message-----
From: david turgeon [mailto:david.t@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 10:49 AM
To: microsound
Subject: Re: [microsound] The 'quest for newness'...


> While I am truly excited by many of the new artists producing beautiful
and
> interesting minimal music, I would say that at least half of what gets
> passed of as "experimental" or "avant garde" these days is some kid
diddling
> his new powerbook software or playing with effects.  The thing that
> separates the former from the later is that they, in Christopher's terms,
> strive for "excellence; in both thought and execution."

so, does anyone actually know of any artists whose music consists solely
of "diddling their new powerbook software or playing with effects"?
there's probably hundreds from the look of things, but i can't think of
a single one.  how ironic!!!!

~ david

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: microsound-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: microsound-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
website: http://www.microsound.org