Re: [microsound] What a press kit should contain

[Nathan Snider <snider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> i don`t see any connection between post-modern philosophy (a phrase i hate
> mainly) and micromusic (music which i like basicly).
> maybe it will be better if u will check what post-modern means?

I might recommend the same to you.  Postmodernism has come to mean a great
many things, which is to be expected, I suppose, of any movement that is
"post" anything.  In music, it encompasses works as diverse as the
schizophrenic abstraction of Autechre's "Confield" and the sparse meditation
of Arvo Pärt's "Tabula Rasa".  It also includes the music we call
microsound.  It's a bit of a catch-all term, covering both re-introduction
of classical elements (as in Pärt), and exaggeration and deconstruction of
modernist elements (as in Autechre).  As to the relationship between
philosophy and music, I will only say: it's no coincidence that Clicks &
Cuts came out on a label named Mille Plateaux, after the book by Deleuze and
Guattari.  Microsound is probably the most aggressively
postmodernist/deconstructionist genre in music at the moment.

regards,

-nathan snider