Re: [microsound] Bring it back to microsound

["j.frede" <jfrede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

as far as "shameless self-promotion" goes, I think it great to have the
chance to see all of the events going on in different parts of the world,
and it creates a great networking opportunity for artists that travel or do
live sound, not to mention the option of checking out the archive's of
different events.

j.frede

Ritual Document Release
PO.BOX 1186
Denver, CO 80201-1186
http://ritualdocument.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Vincler" <jvincle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <jvincle@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:12 AM
Subject: [microsound] Bring it back to microsound


I am not a particularly vocal person on this list but I value it as a
resource and often find the dialogues, debates, etc. insightful,
intelligent, and worth my time reading.

But lately it seems like the list has become a mouthpiece for nonsense
childish rants (the taylor d. name game), microsound ebay sales, and for
vague shameless self-promotion of non-microsound music (and this is not a
stab at Twine, I respect and enjoy their work).

I'm interested in learning about new microsound music, and peoples
intelligent/passionate thoughts about it.  Talk equipment, talk software,
talk theory, network...that's all beautiful and this list has been great,
but it seems to have been slipping.

Does anyone else feel this way?  Or is it me?

And sorry to contribute to the nonsense by complaining.

-john


SOMETHING PROVOCATIVE I'M WORKING ON -- MIGHT BE OF INTEREST TO SOME OF
YOU....PERHAPS...JUST A TASTE

"The glitch aesthetic" is the soundtrack to the civil war raging within the
body of the cyborg-self -- flesh in conflict with the mechanical prosthesis,
rejecting and subverting, turning functionality against itself.  Tools for
increased productivity (the pc, the network, etc.) subverted for increased
pleasure and in defiance of unwilled participation in agendas not one 's
own, reclaiming space for the body (the micro to the macro of techno's first
wave of reclamation and appropriation of abandoned urban spaces).  It is
mechanical sadomasochism of sorts, but on a whole new complicated playing
field.

Designers, Coders, Digital artists and musicians -- we are a new class.  We
are the first wave of cyborgs.  We are in the midst of a class war.  It is
not amongst ourselves, but within ourselves.

Why?

The tools were developed by the future members of the cyborg class(by us)
but the orders for the purpose, the functionality, the ideology behind these
tools came from above (military, corporate interests, et al.). [see 1] Thus
we are in conflict, torn.  Committed to yet dissatisfied with.  The glitch
is just one way of giving voice to these struggles.  Turning the
"productive" and discipline rendering functionality on its head.

Chemical Equation:

Take the modern tech-savvy worker/creator (i.e. cyborg man and his machine)
add (for clarity):
Foucault's "microphysics of power" [see 1],
Deleuze and Guattari's "micropolitcs and microeconomics" [see 2]
Deleuze and Guattari's "microtextures" [see  3]
(please add some Virilio if you'd like -- to taste)

mix  --->

MICROSOUND (sonic subversion - not without it's contradictions)

[1] "microphysics of power...Small acts of cunning endowed with a great
power of diffusion; subtle arrangements, apparently innocent, but profoundly
suspicious; mechanisms that obeyed economies too shameful to be
acknowledged, or pursued petty forms of coercion..."
-- from Foucault's "Docile Bodies"

[2] "[P]ower centers are defined much more by what escapes them or by their
impotence than by their zone of power.  In short, the molecular, or
microeconomics, is defined not by the smallness of its elements but by the
nature of its 'mass'--the quantum flow as opposed to the molar segmented
line.  The task of making the segments correspond to the quanta, of
adjusting the segments to the quanta, implies hit-and-miss changes in rhythm
and mode rather than any omnipotence; and something always escapes."
--from Deleuze and Guattari's "a thousand plateaus"

[3] The microtextures--not masochism--are what explain how the oppressed can
take an active role in oppression: the workers of the rich nations actively
participate in the exploitation of the Third World, the arming of
dictatorships, and the pollution of the atmosphere."
--from Deleuze and Guattari's "a thousand plateaus"

MORE TO COME HOPEFULLY AT KM'S CONFERENCE IF I CAN WRAP UP THE FORMAL DRAFT
THAT THIS WAS IMPROV-D FROM AT 5:00 A.M.

night night

glitch on

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