Re: [microsound]Ikeda's Matrix

[Greg <gregg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Well, some artists that release sonically challenging works on cd don't
> specify any intent or note the possibility of playback problems. For
> example, F. Lopez's track on the first Just About Now comp. To the
> unaided ear, there is nothing to be discerned. In the credits, there is
> nothing to be gleaned. I had to run the piece through a filter and an eq
> on the computer before I figured out that the track was 14 minutes of
> very low tones that could have possibly stressed out my or someone else's
> speakers, when the volume was cranked on this track to hear it. My point
> is that I think that sometimes with cd releases, there can be a very fine
> line between challenging art and thoughtless self indulgence. The rest of
> the comp, by the way, is great.

I'm thinking that this lower-case lack-of-sound sound is quite a good idea,
despite its self indulgence... we are hideously overloaded with sound and
information in life anyhow, so something which deliberately rids itself of
that is a good thing. Problematically you really require a really good
stereo system in virtually an anachoic chamber to hear this, as ambient
enviromental sounds encroach on the listening experience...
suffering from tinnitus on occasions doesn't help me much either... hey was
that high pitched ringing sound actually there?


np: Minoru Sato "in blank/ --on sound" from RLW's "Tulpas" compilation...
fuckin' fantastic! does anybody know anything else about Sato? ikeda-ish
indeed.