Re: [microsound] What a press kit should contain

[Ian andrews <i.andrews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>The goal of deconstruction isn't to create a fresh context, but rather to
>expose the context and the fundamental oppositions that exist within it.  Of
>course, post-structuralism isn't the only branch of postmodernism, or the
>only way to subvert a context, for that matter.  I'd say sure, it's possible
>to create a fresh context by subverting an existing one.  Collage would be a
>simple example.

That's not a bad definition of deconstruction which, I agree, is
essentially a textual operation, and can't be easily translated to other
artistic practices, like music .  The term deconstruction has suffered at
the hands of artists for many years (particularly in the New York art
scene) where it is used in a simplistic manner, to describe any work which
"pulls apart" the elements of another work and reassembles them. A poor
definition in my opinion.

>I don't really know free and avant-garde jazz well enough to say, though I'm
>slowly moving into the genre(s).  My superficial view of free/avant garde
>jazz is that it's similar to glitch in aesthetic, but not necessarily in
>intention.  The works I've heard (by Coltrane and Taylor) work with
>unexpected sounds and cadences, much like glitch, but unlike glitch they
>seem to be trying to impress the weight of the totality of the music on the
>listener.  Also, I've always heard "free" and "avant-garde" used
>interchangeably with respect to jazz; is there a difference between them?
>
The work of John Zorn would be a good example of the collage applied to
jazz in a truely post-modern way, ie. with irony. I've always thought of
musique concrete as being an example of modernist audio collage, where as
cut-up is an example of post-modern audio collage. The former uses recorded
sounds (pure sounds) as its source, while the later uses music, voice/text,
noise (in other words, chunks of culture) as the its source.

Ian Andrews
Metro Screen
Sydney


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