Re: [microsound] Bollox micro... sound? (was ist diese Schei ße?)

[Bill Jarboe <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 9/27/01 10:18 AM, Akira Rabelais at akirarabelais@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> It seems very very weird for people on the 'microsound' list to dis
>> 'microsound'
> 
> not really... who would know better? ...I certainly
> don't want to belong to any club that would have
> 'me' as a member.
> 
> micro... sound? (was ist diese Scheiße?)
I have to say something in defense of Cascone here: I listened to his set in
Seattle and I thought it was really good , the music has a lot more 'heart '
or something played live. I am also interested in the social possibilities
of much new electronic music, since I have sometimes dismissed songs on the
radio which later worked quite differently in a cafe (for instance).

  I like the idea of taking something rather raw or unpolished '
elemental'-;( soundfiles for example) and getting it together live.
 For this reason people releasing CDs I don't like doesn't bother me. I'm
hoping people will use some of my work this way: scrub through it in
possible disgust and extract the tones which speak to them.
> and as for Max M., well I love him
> dearly (I'd put him in my top 100 people
> to hang out with at parties) but he
> and Mr. Pop have had 0% influence on
> what I'm doing.

I only heard of oval 1 1/2 months ago. I still haven't listened to very much
yet I find them inspiring in that I can imagine what I want them to sound
like. Sometimes people will talk about a group that excites them and I will
have a flash of inspiration that probably has little or nothing to do with
the group. 

> If anything I'm ripping
> off Dada and Surrealism...
> 60s-70s popart? (fuck that)
actually, the argeiphontes lyre gave me a pair of lovely black and white
sonograms the other day - they reminded me of popart and I thought wow! is
popart like this?

> Dali is my bitch!

 ever read his work ' 50 secrets of magic craftsmanship?'?  - don't have to
be a painter to find it useful. I've been to cadaques and walked through
those landscapes( I saw some spiders building tough looking webs as well).



 
> not Eno!
 what about the 'oblique strategies' from your web site? are they yours or
eno's( maybe his 'oblique strategies ' are something different) ?
> I'm just making some music (stop by and
> have a few beers, a coffee or perhaps
> an aperitif 

campari orange?
> ...now go to the blackboard and write
> 'I will be my own person' one hundred
> times before lunch. (hehh.)

I know I always start sounding the worst when I figure I can get away with
sounding a bit like so and so or 'that sort of thing '.

 I know this reply is kind of slow, my thoughts haven't felt particularly
urgent the past couple of days. . .



                           Bill Jarboe

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