[microsound] critical

[stephan mathieu <sssst@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi andrej
i agree with richard and your mail proofs it.
i'd be interessted if you have a hint for what was fesh music for you 
recently.
 - stephan

from andrei -

> Yeah, I feel that way too, so I'm gonna just gonna deviate momentarily and
> say that personally I don't care for Mr. Cascone's work, at least not
> the couple of albums I've heard. I was listening to "Cathode Flower" the
> other day and despite all the philosophical pretensions and use of
> "advanced" software it just sounds like a static ambient album to me. 
 
> There are other artists on this list whose work I find overrated.
> In fact I find there's so much pretension in this "microsound" scene. This
> whole austere, minimal thing is so formulaic and worn out at this point. I
> mean I don't even buy Raster-Noton cds anymore cuz I don't really expect
> to hear anything new. I get the impression that a lot of artists think
> there is something intrinsicly artistic about making that kind of music
> and backing it up with pseudo-intellectual theories. There's a lot of 
> pseudo academia around. Like people who are familiar with the work of
> Stockhausen, Xenakis, etc. think that because they've discovered those
> composers' works somehow they've become "serious" artists after having
> spent the last 10 years or whatever making techno or ambient or
> whatever. I just wanna see some real effort and intellect put into 
> people's work. That's what I think made the music of people like
> Stockhausen or Xenakis so impressive. I sound negative, but all I really
> want is to hear some fresh music.