Re: [microsound] The Crisis of Post-Spectacle "Live" Contemporary Ambient Perfor

[pelagius pelagius <pela_gius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: tattermalion <tattermalion@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> http://www.comatonse.com/listening/crisis.html

Thanks, that was an interesting read though a bit difficult to get through 
with that crazy formatting.


> example from terre's text (properly quoted), on DJ culture...
>
> "The listener's act of consumption no longer emphasizes the traditionally 
> Modernist fetishization of a producer's creative output. Rather, it 
> reflects a tertiary commodification of the DJ's selection and performance 
> of other producers' outputs as the ultimate in informed commodity 
> fetishism."

I have a stupid question now.  Why is the emphasis on (or "fetishization 
of") an artist's creative output considered a "traditionally Modernist" 
phenomenon?  I would think it predates Modernism, and I think of Modernism 
as being a period filled with group work, chance, improvisation and 
conceptualizing.

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