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