Re: [microsound] What a press kit should contain

[Rhett or Anna <omserene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I agree and I understand the term "post-modern" is a catch-all phrase.
Yet,  It does put us all in the same quadrant of thought.

And I would also like to point out;  microsound is more popular in academic
circles.  Take for instance the articles at ctheory.net.

I suppose I need to read Mille Plateaux...(secretly I already ran out and bought
it) but feel free to give me your interpretation. Thanx for pointing that out.
But I have read a few essays and don't you think the inversions and implosions
of signs in the simulacra are way beyond deconstruction.  I mean I may have not
read much but I think that the poles are  oscillating at such a rapid pace we
don't even know what to deconstruct anymore.  So we find ourselves
deconstructing music in order to feel safe again.

If there is any exciting discourse going on anywhere please let me know where to
look.
The last thing I read... I faintly remember, was "How we became Postmodern".
That was two years ago.

I check ctheory every now and then and I was pleasantly surprised to see some
discussion about the music I have been exploring the last several months.

I am going to read it... I've been putting it off because I think I should at
least finnish "Fifty Contemporary Thinkers"....Ha!  I'm not being self
depricating...Just painfully honest.

Nathan Snider wrote:

> > 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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