Re: [microsound] MICROSOUND vs. ISSUES

[Antonio Hubilla <ah827@xxxxxxxx>]

hello.

i'm sorry but i couldn't resist:
for yr listening pleasure,
a small improv inspired by the discussion of this list,
using MAX/MSP to manipulate cat samples.

enjoy: http://twingles.com/transmission/flashram/catjoke.mp3

love
toni000
student.bard.edu/~ah827

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Aaron Ximm wrote:

> > become informed. Do we not have enough time to get informed or are we
> > already overloaded?
> 
> Of course everyone is overloaded; we wade through a barrage of unsolicited
> data. Only by filtering it are we free to act.
> 
> Subscribing to this list, I chose to open one port to the outside world.
> I also tacitly agreed to self-filter my output: to keep it topical.
> 
> > are tools we use to create the music we all like, but animal rights and the
> > issues surrounding are lives are equally influential to the music we make
> > and listen to, just as Max is?
> 
> I certainly disagree.  The music *some individuals* make, certainly; "we"
> writ large, of course not.
> 
> If everything is equally influential (specific tools and processes being
> no more relevant than, say: political, religious, or cultural belief
> systems), than nothing is influential.  That two things are important
> does not mean they are relevant to one another.
> 
> So: distinctions are made and a consensual line is drawn.  Tools are in.
> Religion (broadly taken to include animal & abortion rights) is out.
> 
> Incidentally, you should assume nothing about my own beliefs; I refrain
> from airing them since they're entirely perpendicular to my interest in
> sound...
> 
>  aaron
> 
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