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Re: [microsound] What a press kit should contain



there are also people in the middle of the praries in canada that play it on the
radio.

David Fodel wrote:

> "AFAIK i am the ONLY dj who will play this
> kinda music in his set."
>
> just an FYI;
> i play it on the radio, i played a set last summer at a festival in Wyoming
> (!), and will be going to a show on the 29th here locally called the
> "click-house project" where a bunch of house DJ's will be spinnin housey
> clicks and cuts... and I am sure there are tons of other DJ's doin similar
> things around the world. let the cartoons begin!
>
> David Fodel
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> > ----------
> > From:         Super Coffee Beans
> > Reply To:     microsound
> > Sent:         Sunday, January 13, 2002 7:58 PM
> > To:   microsound
> > Subject:      Re: [microsound] What a press kit should contain
> >
> > 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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