Re: [microsound] AE patches and cute squirrels

["M. Todd Smith" <msmith00@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Listening to music is "passive consumerism" but "reading the ingredients"
of
> music allows us to participate in the joke of digital culture?  Please
> explain.

I think Kim means you can enjoy lightning or even a tuna fish sandwich
without knowing how they work, or what
went into making them.  However once you understand the *phenomenon* of
lightning or the *recipe* of the tuna sandwich
you can come to a greater understanding of said lightning bolts and tuna
fish sandwiches.

> So when the music doesn't "work" is the music broken or is my perceptual
> apparatus broken?

Perhaps you don't understand the music because you weren't given enough
information about it.  Perhaps
digital music has come to point where the emotional content of a piece of so
obscured that we the listeners
can't gain any insight into the feelings behind the music and simply listen
to the tools making the music.  So to answer the question
a little bit of salt and a little bit of pepper.


> Is this a music list or an internet marketing seminar?...

This is microsound

Cheers
todd