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Re: [microsound] "anti-correlation" radio servicing



Andrei wrote:

> I don't know about "cheap shot". I'm actually holding back on my
> (negative) comments regarding Mr. Cascone's work because he's present on
> this list.

That would make you a bit of an intellectual coward, would it not? Sort of
contradicts your diatribe on intellectual honesty, does it not?

Put your money where your mouth is and tell the world what´s "wrong" with Mr.
Cascone´s work. He´s a grown man and can surely take it.

> And as far as being concerned whether new artists are on the level of
> Xenakis/Stockhausen/etc., it's not that I'm concerned, it's more that I've
> noticed a trend in the last decade or so of endless references by
> artists in more pop/non-academic music world (which to me microsound is)
> as a means of bringing more of some sort of intellectual legitimacy or an
> aura of sophistication to work which in reality lacks those qualities. To
> me this is very prevalent in the "microsound' scene. Lots of "concepts"
> and rhetoric, but very little musical substance.

Sophistication is in the eye of the beholder and not an/one Idea which is
better/worse represented by one or the other. Please qualify your opinions.
And "in reality lacks those qualities"? That´s a rather general sweep across
the microsounds, isn´t it?

> I think my comments regarding Kim Cascone's work have to do with a
> fundamental difference of opinion. To Cascone process alone seems to be
> enough, whereas to me the process is only as good as the results it
> achieves.

Let´s not forget that Xenakis and Stockhausen .has. made some, IMO, pieces
that are highly process-oriented--that basically seems to be more about
process than "result" (as if the two ultimately exclude each other; every
"result" is a process; where the "result" begins and the process ends is often
a highly debateable matter; if I didn´t finish this sentence with a question
mark, would it still be in process or the result of a). Some of Xenakis´ later
UPIC-works do little-to-nothing for me.

But so what. Cascone has made some works do little for me, but he´s also made
some works that´s done very much (like his 3" collab. with Rowe, which is
f-a-b-u-l-o-u-s). The distinction between "process" and "result" is not very
interesting, I think, because each term is charged with too much ethos
(process=bad/failure, result=good/success).

Is The Legend Of Eer process or result? Is Mikrophonie electronicimprov or
result? Does it matter?

/Øivind/