Re: [microsound] something markus popp said

[Neil Wiernik <neil@xxxxxxxxx>]

David,

Im getting the same thing now for 2 days now...
same person WTF is it all about ,....
:(
its annoying!!!

Neil..

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, david turgeon wrote:

>this folk just sent me this message privately 3 times, replying to 3
>different messages i posted to the list, with no other explanation.  i
>suppose it's just his way to ask me to forward it to the list with
>appropriate commentary.  :)
>
>it's interesting because popp sort of contradicts himself towards the
>end of the article, & to add some fuel to that fire, the live set i've
>seen from him last year (with david kristian & mitchell akiyama opening)
>was indeed some very typical improv, particularly bland if compared to
>the laptop magic of pita or morceaux_de_machines, for instance.  in a
>sense it was interesting because it was noisy & you wouldn't expect that
>from oval, but...  you had to wonder whether the noise was serious or
>just a pisstake for people expecting to hear systemisch or ovalprocess
>(like rdj & his "sandpaper" record).
>
>his studio work may be another story (though nothing i've heard from
>oval has ever appealed much to me) but "taking a year to achieve" is no
>guarantee for a good recording anymore than say "letting it go
>spontaneously".  but we've been over that haven't we?
>
>on the other hand, here are 3 things i have personally stolen from OVAL:
>
>1) generic 4-letter word used as artist name...
>OVAL -> CAMP
>
>2) systematically prefixing album titles with the artist name...
>_ovalprocess_ -> _camp féministe_
>
>3) sampling famous avant-garde ambient records...
>_selected ambient works vol.2_ -> _makesnd cassette_
>
>i don't do CD skipping though, disc & the discmen do it better!
>
>~ david

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