Re: [microsound] What a press kit should contain

[Super Coffee Beans <moog@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

its very easy to label stuff as post-modern, but does it mean anything?
do really understand the term modernity? i respcet alot of the stuff that
people do in the clicks scene. AFAIK i am the ONLY dj who will play this
kinda music in his set.
but i feel the term post-modern has become a cheap way to claim a sort of
pseudo intelectual tone.
*u will have to excuse me english is not my mother tounge*
the fact that micromusic is intelctual does not mean that this is a post
modern music. i don`t see any connection between derida and SND.
you might say deconstuction -but this will only be on the very shallow
meaning.
TCB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Snider" <snider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 4:27 AM
Subject: Re: [microsound] What a press kit should contain


> > 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
>
>
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