Re: [microsound] Review

["Leann M. Lipscomb-Zavier" <ambient_2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jon wrote - "what sounds as a single 
note 
of droning lab-setting sterility" is in fact a single
note of droning 
lab-setting sterility, as in fact the first disc of
this set most 
decidedly is (and)
this is a characteristic common to most pure sine 
wave/tone-based 
electronic records and is way more evident on Ikeda's
earlier work, 
just to 
name one example. I tried walking around "the
listening area", believe 
me. a 
class of its own? go buy a copy of Xenakis' Legende
d'Eer immediately. 

>>I have both the Xenakis and the Matrix and must
chime in with my opinion. You must use a
high-resolution system to hear the various 'layers'.
As in any music played on a system of low-resolution
one will not notice the minutiae of the recording...
I have a vast collection of sine-based recordings yet
have not experienced such drastic effects as on
Matrix. The Xenakis - playing now- is a differant
beast altogether, IMHO.
Again, an opinion. If we all agreed and dug the same
music there would be no chance of progress.

Love
L



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