Re: [microsound] on assumptions

[jean paul l'asthme <jplasthma@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Philip Sherburne <psherburne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 3) The accusation of a given genre as "hip" is
> really pretty useless; it
> speaks only to the accuser's anxiety about culture
> and cultural capital, and
> says nothing about the formal or social structure of
> the medium itself.

i normally don't try to play the genre game.  when
people ask i say i like weird electronic music, and
usally people know what i mean, and if they don't
i'll try to describe it more specifically,,, the same
thing with other sorts of music, most of the rock
bands
i like are fairly different and so i try to just say
i like jagged dynamic sexy drunk percussive rock 
typically... except jazz... i tend to just say, i like
jazz.  classical even is a dirty word i think.  sure,
there are the classics... but for me, most of the
classical or contemporary classical i listen to is
what
i call my "emotional music"even though it's all based
around my emotions somehow, for some reason, maybe it
is the resonance and directness of a string section 
that makes me immediately make the emotional
connection. ,,, i don't really know why
i've developed these descriptors, but genres seem to
insult the music.  it's like herding the cattle... i'm
not interested in cattle though, i like meat. sorry.
i'm on some anti anxiety medicine that's made me act
a little loopy so forgive my babblocity.
i often want to post to this list about different 
kinds of music, but they're usually so acoustically
irrelevant that i don't bother... there's a world of
music out there though, if we all like whatever the
fuck microsound is (or was, haha?), well, then i'd
appreciate knowing what else is out there that i 
might never even knew existed.  



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