Re: [microsound] Deleuze Influence on Post Digital Music

[tattermalion <tattermalion@xxxxxxxxx>]

wait a second, how has deleuze had any influence on (post) digital music at all? i guess i missed those seminal releases on which he got all crazy w/ Max Mathews back in the day. i also missed that fat patch he threw down in max/msp and that nifty algorythm that... 
really though, don't we give too much credit to the academians on this list. none of the writing done by theory jocks effect anything outside of the trajectory of their own careers. all these fellows do is translate happenings from out in the world into obscurantist jargon for others who want to "understand" things. i'll grant that deleuze has had an impact on the way people discuss all things post but i can't buy into the idea that his books have had anything whatsoever to do with the current state of digital music. the very notion is deluzional. 
all the tenured radicals trip over themselves in their rush to explain the "recombinant" aspects of hip hop and how its practices of appropriation in some way undermine oppressive social norms. what impact have these self important eggheads had on hip hop? you tell me.



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