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

[Sean Cooper <scooper@xxxxxxxx>]

"we haven't yet got rid of god; we still believe in language."
			--friedrich nietzsche

sc

At 02:46 PM 9/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>
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