Re: [microsound] glitch musicians need to party more!

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >>> >>From: Tim Hecker <thecker@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>> >>12k/mego/clickclank et al will never be the "future of idm"
> >>> >>while its fun to listen to when you take acid...its mostly
> >>> >>the pencil neck geeks who get into it and dont know alot
> >>> >>about sex.
> >>> >>i use minimal shit  to back up blacksabbath & speed metal
> >>> >>on the decks.

Alas I fear he may be serious.  It is does seem to be the case at least in 
San Francisco that if one wants DJ groupies, house and trip-hop and (gasp) 
anthemic Eurotrance will magnetize them much more quickly than will 
glitchscapes or blipbeats - or for that matter than will "IDM" or organic 
ambience or dub or krautrock or academic music or shawm solos or dan tranh 
recordings or old Taiwanese pop or just about anything else I might 
actually want to hear in a club.  There IS a reason this music is almost 
never heard in this city, even though we have plenty of musicians making it 
and - from the look of the record racks - plenty of "pencil neck geeks" 
buying it, apparently in lieu of sex.  (I can picture the article in The 
Wire:  "Will the Digital Aesthetic Ruin your Sex Life?")  But perhaps there 
is a confusion of terms:  could "minimal shit" be remedied with a higher 
fiber content in the diet?

np - Autopoesies fashion show

joshua maremont / thermal - mailto:thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
boxman studies label - http://www.boxmanstudies.com/