Re: [microsound] Meaning exists, its just microscopic meaning.

["bvasic" <bvasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice post Scott.

aLEKs

> Seems like microsound needs to be divided up into a set of sub genera's.
>
> or am I confusing it with other stuff that already exist's? Would it be
safe
> to say that everything done with field recordings should be considered
> lowercase? Have I been confusing John hudack with microsound all along? Or
> what about people like SND, who make use of microsound's to compose tiny
> beat based structures? Or what about the work of pimmon that at times is
> almost unbearable to listen to?
>
> I just think the definintion of post-digital needs to also include
process,
> but wait a minute, maybe I am totally wrong. post-digital is in itself
> digital... so what if we remove post-digital from the idea of microsound
and
> look at microsound more from an asethic point of view. Seems like the
"idea"
> side of it can be formed more out of the process. For example Taylor
duprees
> most recent cd "stil", related to the idea of stillness, and was inspired
by
> photography. Did not a creative process inspire the tracks? first a visual
> artist capturing images, then another artist reinterpiting them as sound
> using a set of computer "signs" or "language" of a known genra
"microsound",
> I dont disagree that we clearly hear the "tool", but thats not the only
> thing we hear. we are also hearing Taylor duprees idea of what or how he
> wanted to hear those photographs using the established language of
> microsound. Taylor's interpertaion becomes a filter of photographs of
> reality (another filter) to generate new form that now carries meaning,
but
> meaning that may not be unlocked unless the audience is aware of the
process
> and ideation the artist went through. Meaning and motive become residual,
> thatin alot of ways keeps microsound from becoming little more than just a
> meaningless tool. I hope I have not upset anyone, but this issue is one
that
> I ask myself alot, in regards to is this worth anything or have any value,
> cause its not a popular entertainment mediaum, and not to mention, most
> people listening to "experimental music" draw the line with microsound, so
> why are we still interested?
>
> Idea art? maybe.
>
> Process art? maybe.
>
> a way to interepert our existance and awerness? yes.
>
> Maybe the meaning exists in microsound, its just microscopic meaning.
>
>
>
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