Re: [microsound] Re: grabbing people by the balls (dumbtype et al)

[Jacek Staniszewski <jacek.staniszewski@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Philip Sherburne" <psherburne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'microsound'" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:21 PM
Subject: RE: [microsound] Re: grabbing people by the balls (dumbtype et al)


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>
> janek,
> i'm not sure what you mean by "rigamarole of the week," but i don't think
> that my review should be cause for fear.

hey philip::
no problems::i meant aesthetic endpoint, where enthusiasts of more cultured,
civilized (errm colonized?) sound and brain-dead noisesters will ultimately
disagree
over obvious stylistic discrepancies of both directions.
i don't want to go into this. THIS is not my context: arguing in the name
of some specific sound/genre/listening milieu/whatever. i can easily enjoy
Masonna AND, say, Morr Music products (even listened simultaneously
from 2 sources). I'm not particularly selective, one could say ::>

if you actually read my piece
> you'll note that it's an attempt to come to terms with karkowski's
> performance, and my own violent reaction (at least in the imagination) is
a
> very honest appraisal -- and, i should hope, a damn sight better than
either
> the simple fanboy "this is brand-name noise, therefore good," or its
> opposite, the polite and chastened "this was noisy, therefore bad."

i appreciate that. it's just difficult to refer to barely-there, objective,
perception
of such events - the aspect of unusually high volume of performance
reappears
on the sacred ground of modern composition (Phill Niblock, Xenakis etc) and
could be found in Russolo's (et al) writings. As such, it's not the 80s
invention
of grim black-clad TOPYclones. It should be rather seen as an artistic
attempt
to invoke physical changes in the surrounding material world.
>
> re: fascistic, you'll note that it was my term. and re: the post-colonial
> post you quoted, that was not mine.

OK, i take it then::> yes post-colonial was someone else's - didn't mean to
ascribe it to you specifically.
and, oh, my 1st name is jacek. anyway.

r
>j<

>
> ta,
> phil
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