Re: [microsound] the anti-rhythmic imperative of the 21st Century neo-Brutists

[Lance Grabmiller <praemedia@xxxxxxxxx>]

stuff like this is why i subscribe to this list...well, mostly.......
 
cheers.
lance garbmiller
www.praemedia.com 
 tobias v <tobias@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:dear list ;

duncan van halluciphile said...

"Beatmaching is for wanker DJs fueling dancing
alchoholics, and sound collage is for a more mind
stimlulating sensory exploration."

I know you're just tossing this off, but nevertheless, it is symptomatic.

This is the kind of Euro-centric, high-art stance that so mirrors the early
days of the Cabaret Voltaire and the foundations of "brutism" (let's mime
"African language" and call it a "poetry of the savages!") that it makes me
wonder if, indeed, any of the major developments in acknowledging that 1.
there are no hierarchies of sound; 2. sound has no content nor meaning (see
Achim Szepanski's excellent reiteration of this in the Parachute
"Electrosounds" issue 107), and 3. rhythm, as a movement of sound in a
certain temporality, likewise _expresses_ no lesser nor greater element of
_value_, has been at all digested in today's world of listeners and
producers among the so-called "avant-garde" of experimental electronic
music. All that can be measured--for rhythm is a temporality of measure 


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