RE: [microsound] online mp3 hosting / mp3.com

[_ P-Love _ <hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> yeah, i was upset at that issue at first also but decided to just
> renormalize/compress a bit and then put a little note with the song letting
> people know it was intended to be listened to a low volume.  the 128kbs
> encoding mandate also deforms the original sound.  and then when i hear
> people are lisening to it at "lo-fi"...  however if you look around a bit
> you will find some intersting things going on there (for instance nosiei
> sakata has a site) buried.
>
> josh
>
> www.mp3/com/gainstructure

hey josh yer stuff sounds great. the whole microsound fiasco is interesting 
because i put a piece up on mp3.com (http://mp3.com/PhilThomson, if you must 
know) that has long silences in several places (sometimes up to almost a 
minute) and which has been recorded/mixed at low volume, and i didnt have 
any problem getting it up there. amazing what you can get by sleeping with 
the right people. (just kidding... maybe.)

isnt it fascinating how this culture seems to fear silence and low volume so 
much? noise is "sacred", as R. Murray Schafer puts it, and yet silence is 
unprofitable (because anonymous) and therefore to be censored and censured 
at every turn. but still at the same time, beneath all the deafening noise 
of industry and modernity and the proliferation of postmodern 
informational/digital noise on the internet and digital networks (web sites 
of personal poetry about eggplant, fan sites about Neil Diamond, etc.), we 
are still a culture that maintains a disturbingly insistent silence on so 
many things, and as ACT-UP reminded us all through the eighties, some of 
these SILENCES = DEATH. Interesting that we collectively remain silent about 
so many of these silences, and may even be unaware of or forgetful of them 
BECAUSE they're so silent, and yet when silence turns up in challenging 
places, places that disrupt the usual flow of power and wealth, there's a 
certain palpable panic that sets in and power acts to fill the silence so 
that silence as usual can resume. There is so much *power* in silence. There 
is so much silence in power.... Blah blah blah...

I'll return to silence now.

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