Re: [microsound] record industry is becoming the book business

["transmit, at pacific (dot net, dot au)" <transmit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i have to admit, i don't really care what people are writing about 
microsound or whatever, because it's all flossy rhetoric which (i hope?) 
doesn't affect my ability to listen to whatever i want, anyway.  matmos and 
herbert are doing their own things, and that's cool, doesn't matter to me 
if it's naff - they're not getting in the way of us doing our own thing, 
right?  i don't think there's anything wrong with herbert being too 'overt' 
with his politics; to re-quote tad from an earlier post:
>  As that Canadian Surrealist Mimi Parent once said: "Knock hard. Life is 
Deaf."
as one who is interested in action over (often) circular talk and legless 
contemplation, i'm happy to see another politicised gesture entering the 
fray of the mainstream.  the same goes for that apparently very 
aestheticised 'anti-capitalist' rock band, 'the (international) noise 
conspiracy' - authentic they may not be, but so what?  better than most of 
the trash out there, and maybe some kid is going to follow up on those 
simplified messages which are being paraded around like kylie minogue's 
perineum.

there's no point in being too protective of any perceived vanguard; they're 
dismantled all the time. that's why you have to keep creating.  you should 
aim, first and foremost, to be happy.  sometimes this requires a bit of 
letting go.

> (Which is, perhaps, somewhat of a poetic justice;
> advertising has so saturated our lives that the real
> resistance arises when we are forced to pay for the
> things we now desire with a desire that is not actually
> ours, but has been given to us. The result: consumer
> rebellion. We have a *right* to what is advertised...)

i think this is a fantastic idea that should be developed further.

enjoy this day or night,
jon.




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