Re: [microsound] analog|digital or digilog?

[Ian Guthrie Yeager <iyeager@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Joshua Maremont wrote:

> For a listener, however, the differences are in what is done 
> creatively with the tools, whatever they happen to be.  Microsound - as I 
> look at it - is an approach to sound; the enforcement of a PowerBook 
> lifestyle can be left to Apple's advertising agency.

I couldn't agree more. Perhaps it could be said that the advent of digital
recording allowed what many of us think as a "microsound aesthetic,"
simply by virtue of lowering the _noise floor_ of home recordings enough
to bring the minute structure of (quiet) sound into focus. 

Having said that, I'm not sure "Analog vs Digital" represents a crucial
division for me. I'm working without a computer right now, using my
Ensoniq EPS, tape players, DAT, guitars, homeade instruments, cheap mics,
etc, etc instead. Still, I'm very much _interested_ in everything being
discussed here as relates to computers and their various uses. To me, this
is operfectly natural. After all, if I can take inspiration from
photogra[phy, film, painting, physics, etc etc, why the hell not other
interesting _music_ made with different tools? 


Ian Yeager         
igy2k

np - George Benson "Give me the Night"