Re: [microsound]Ikeda's Matrix

[gabriel burian-mohr <gabeb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: "gabriel burian-mohr" <gabeb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 4:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [microsound]Ikeda's Matrix
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> >    so, how valid is it for the artist to request/demand that works be
> >  received in a particular manor(?).  these are just questions but,
> >  that's what art's all about (right ?).

on 12/2/00 jonah dempcy wrote:

> it seems to me that all artists make either implicit or explicit demands
> about how their music be received. the simple fact that they release music
> implies a manner in which it must be received, ie: if it's on CD, you must
> have a CD player etc.

i'm sorry, that's not really what i meant...i was thinking more in 
the realm of artist's making perceptual requests i.e. the way in 
witch we are asked to listen to a work, specifying the 
quality/context of the playback medium...

> the question of how far this goes is just a matter of taste.. but keep in
> mind that 95% of the techno music out there doesn't sound good unless it's
> on a huge club soundsystem, just like 95% of jazz music won't sound good
> with a subwoofer set to 10! ;)

but this is a whole new question all together, this is more a 
question of context than anything else...