to kim and curtis roads!

[jeff wright <wright_left@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

responding to:
> but even more importantly if we want microsound to become more than a 
> "passing fad"
> (ala Roads prediction...but then they said that about Techno back in the
> early 90's) some sort of discourse/cultural criticism has to take
> place...the anti-intellectual stance holds microsound back from becoming a
> legit movement like .net art or some other example of street art crossing
> into the academic/art world..

curtis has written some fine material, and where would granular processes be 
without him, but to say that glitch is a passing "trend" though, is 
hilarious.

and kim, although i respect your work concerning these issues, I find it 
altogether silly and somewhat pretentious to for you to think that you are 
"carrying the torch" for gggllitch...
that your rhetoric will, at the end of the day, prove to be a shining and 
victorious moment for glitch.  seems like a modernist stance to me... and 
missing the point entirely.

a glitchy history of glitch, skipping over ;large developments
(i'm trying to keep this short!)
"glitch"  (self reflexive sound experimentation?) has been present in 
recorded media since the first experiments of the phonograph...

THEN  skipping skipping over other developments
(i'm trying to keep this short!) a glitchy history of glitch:)

Mr. marcel Duchamp (r.mutt) graced us with his wit by displaying a urinal as 
a work of art in a gallery...
that was, funny enough, a watershed moment.  the mundane subverting it's own 
context
I don't think I need to cover the entire history here, but then on to tape 
and Pierre schaefer, xenakis... a splice that draws attention to itself.  in 
film Godard... even sonic youth ...exploiting the tools revealing the tools, 
the process, making the music out of the dirt that created it, trying to be 
as sonically honest as possible.

Roads may think of "glitch" as a trend due to the fact that it is relatively 
new in the digital paradigm (whatever that is right?!) and with the 
proliferation of digital tools, there are simply more people using these 
tools, more people trying to push the sounds of these proprietary tools (or 
even open source tools)... i.e. potentially more glitch in the air.
All of this coupled with more of a need to subvert a cultural push (largely 
perpetuated by "Hollywood corporations") toward "transparent" media- the 
fake behind the face.
There will always be the need to need to subvert that
h
ey, hey, my my, glitchchcy musssicc, will, neveeer, dieeee!!!!!
thanks for listening
Jeff wight

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