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Re: [microsound] microsound future - pop



many of terre thaemlitz's recent cd's contain one or more tracks dealing
explicitly with recontextualized pop. and his most recent,
"interstices," is almost entirely given over to same.

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onnow: *0/r (12k)

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Greg wrote:

> > One artist you might look into is Atom.  His latest stuff, Erik
> > Satin, DOS Tracks, Los Samplers, Geeez'n'Gosh, all this stuff is
> > integrating pop elements into microsound structures.  Actually
> > go ahead and add to the list the superb Naturalist and
> > Schnittstelle.  All have singing except DOS Tracks and the
> > Schnitts.  The main release to point to from him, though, would
> > be Pop Artificielle, in which he translates pop hits from
> > Prince, James Brown, John Lennon, David Bowie, Donovan, along
> > with a few others, into stuttering technological delights.
> > P.A. is not exclusively microsound, but pretty much everything
> > Atom has released in the past couple of years contains little
> > passages of computers freaking out (er, microsounding?).
> > I know he has a Kyma system in his rig, many of his sound effects
> > are quite startling and unique... and FUN!  E-Z-listening jazz,
> > Latin folk, house and techno, these influences all show up at some
> > point.  Great entertaining stuff.
> 
> and i guess you could add that fantastic new "covers" record by VVM to the
> list. does anybody know if VVM are going to make that patch they use to
> butcher those songs available for all of us, or is the process a little more
> complex, weird pitch shifting and god knows what going on there. lovely.
> 
> i'd run my classic hits radio through my computer and listen to butchered
> 80's love songs.... all night long!
> 
> aut{audio.image.script}
> http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~destruct/aut
> now:  My Things (www.tiln.org)
> 
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