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

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:14 PM 9/12/00 -0400, Mike Taylor wrote:
> The only questions I have are:
> 1. isn't Static taking up some of the slack in this territory in SF.

Very nicely, until the weekly event ended.  Even there, however, the 
minimalist sets were strictly for the geeks (hand is raised here), and the 
floor filled for jungle and techno and to a lesser extent for electro 
mixes.  And I saw more than one experimental set clear not only the 
dancefloor but the entire club.  Meanwhile where are most of the records - 
and quite good ones too I will add - by the residents of this party being 
released?  Germany - rather far from SF according to my map.

> 2. why aren't you doing anything about it?
> DIY, it isn't just for punks anymore.

Well my musical cooperative has been presenting salons for electronic music 
listening, about which you can learn more on my website.  As for more 
public clubs, I have been involved in the past, and in the present, mea 
culpa.  There are several reasons or excuses, which may be tagged as more 
or less lame or lazy depending upon how charitable you are feeling this 
afternoon.  (1) Most events in SF are presented by DJ crews, and I am not 
part of one.  (2) Barely any spaces are left here for any music - thanks to 
gentrification and the cooperation of local authorities - and clubs know 
that electronic music fans are few (and here seem to stay at home) and 
spend very little money at the bar when compared to the more popular styles 
of music.  (3) Promoting a party is a lot of work, and without some other 
participants it is hard to add this to a schedule including recording as 
well as a full-time job.  (4) The sort of event I would put on would 
probably alienate all but about 10 people in SF, as I like many styles of 
music, in opposition to the increasingly ghettoized target marketing of the 
successful clubs here - the last thing I want is to add a 
micro-ghetto/clique to the little boxes already imprisoning other realms of 
electronic music in the clubs.  (5) No venues have displayed any interest; 
but maybe some space in SF will be naive enough to allow some weirdos in 
once a month to mix up Lithops and Scorpions and Theresa Teng and Arthur 
Lyman and Tamaru and Kudsi Erguner and Bill Nelson and Senking and 
Cranioclast and Lotus Eaters and Terje Rypdal and Hosokawa Toshio with some 
of our own noises and put up with the fact that our tiny audience is 
secretively sipping its own bottled water.  Maybe...

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