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

[Gunnar Garness <ggarness@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Definitely, and then you get the macho indie guys over at Pitchfork Media
record reviews calling it "squirm" music (why do they even bother reviewing
it I wonder?  Maybe its the same impulse that drives some people to go to
the Rush Limbaugh discussion boards and purposefully starting flame wars).
Talk about opening pandora's box!  I say we ditch the terms IDM and glitch
from our vocabulary now before it gets really ugly and the inevitable
backlash begins.

Gunnar

----------Original Message-----
-----From: bob maynard [mailto:fleshlike@xxxxxxxxxxx]
-----Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:05 PM
-----To: ggarness@xxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Subject: RE: [microsound] glitch musicians need to party more!
-----
-----
-----Gunnar wrote:
-----
----->...IDM is such a ridiculous term.  In fact when someone
-----uses it on a
----->web site or in conversation I know it might be a good
-----idea to just >move on
----->quickly and don't look back. Who in the world came up
-----with it >anyway?  I
----->bet it was the same type of person who came up with
-----"glitch >music"  I'm
----->almost embarrassed to even use them in this e-mail.
-----
-----yeah brother.
-----
-----  how many of us have attempted to describe this whole
-----Microsound thing to
-----uninformed friends/colleagues/girlfriends?  We say
-----Microsound/glitch: the
-----(typical) response is a furrowed brow, then we launch into
-----a crash course
-----history of the electroAcoustic family tree, and ultimately
-----we feel like
-----we're just scratching the surface of this new *musical*
-----phenomenon. Often it
-----feels like genre titles are consigned to
-----lowest-common-denominator status,
-----*IDM* ostensibly the corniest of them all. But that's
-----their nature, I guess:
-----a highly reductive, catch-all phrase that works best as a
-----header on some
-----record store shelf.