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Re: [microsound] What a press kit should contain



Point well taken.

However, we need to start somewhere and for me this is what interested me enough
to actually turn off the Skinny Puppy CD and actually read something.



Super Coffee Beans wrote:

> 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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