Re: [microsound] Raaijmakers and Lopez questions

["Kristopher S. Handley" <thesubtlebody@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: JonAbbey2@xxxxxxx
<< Is the Raaijmakers Tape Music set that was discussed recently still in 
print? It has been on my list for some time but now, it seems to have
> disappeared from the earth's surface... >>

Try emf.org as well, their base price for the , but good service as well; 
their website is pretty nice as an intro to older and newer currents in 
electronic/electroacoustic music, though everyone here knows that by now, I 
s'pose.

Has anyone else here who's checked out the box set found the liner notes on 
Raaijmakers' "Mao" pieces (not written by Raaijmakers) the least bit 
disturbing?  Claustrophobic?  Sinophobic?  Even...racist?  I only read them 
once, and I have yet to finish listening to even the first disc, but the 
liners seemed to pre-empt hungover Cold War hackles by dismissing the 
Chinese as culturally duplicitous, or some such thing.  I find that claim 
outrageous and more than a little problematic in the United States, where 
the question of racial (i.e. Chinese) profiling has figured prominently in 
the imprisonment,  imminent trial, and denial of bail to Wen Ho Lee, vis a 
vis theft of atomic technology secrets.  I'm sorry I don't have the text 
with me right now, or I would reproduce it; but I'd be interested in the 
opinions of those who have read the notes in question.  As for the music: 
remarkable, quite a new experience for my ears.

----s

NP: Gerry Hemingway, SOLO ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC WORKS 1984-95 (Random Acoustics)
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