[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [microsound] Re: post-Modernmisms and their discontents



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Taylor" <gtaylor@xxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 4:00 PM
Subject: [microsound] Re: post-Modernmisms and their discontents


> It occurs to me that this list may be interesting precisely
> because it's jam-packed with ah...younger colleagues who
> were raised on some amount of postmodern theory or at
> least a plurality of possible aesthetics, and have been brought
> by their tools and the conditions of simultaneous consumption
> and production face to face with a kind of formalism which
> is something arrived at by personal practice rather tha as
> something demonized by their well-meaning teachers or
> mentors - and is, as a result, somehow more "personal" and
> less easy to dismiss even though it may fly in the face of
> their trainings and background..
> 
> Of course, most formalists of any stripe *also* arrive at
> said position by the same route. They may not have done
> so in a context in which it may be associated with the
> excesses of The Old Dispensation.
> 
> gregory
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: microsound-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> For additional commands, e-mail: microsound-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> website: http://www.microsound.org
> 
> 


_____NetZero Free Internet Access and Email______
   http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html