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

[bob maynard <fleshlike@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

  so, like many of you m-sound subscribers, i write to think. And after 
writing an essay about the topic of all things *glitch*, i arrived at tons 
of questions (and some answers). Here's the title, plus a sample paragraph.  
dig.

Oops, I Did It Again:
the representation of error in contemporary *glitch* media

"A "glitch" ceases to be a glitch once it is exploited, and represented, as 
such. To construct a music of snips and samples birthed from "glitchy" 
origins (e.g. the lilt of a skipping CD, the accidental damaging--and 
subsequent sampling--of a filter) means that the end result of the "error 
process" is hopefully MORE sounds that resemble the initial error. 
Eventually this "error process" becomes a staged, non-erroneous process 
intended to arrive at sounds--maybe even an entire range of sounds--that 
adhere to the qualities and characteristics of the initial, primary 
accident."


release the hounds,

Bob  M  a  y  n  a  r  d


"...this is by no means the whole story."  -Fred Jameson



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