Re: [microsound] physical filter

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An intersting thing about microsound that makes it seem to many non physical 
is the fictional space that it creates. When listening to what's called 
concrete music, that is in one of its many definitions documentary of actual 
spaces, and to music played with physically handled instruments, one gets a 
sense of a real place, that is, the image of a person playing guitar, a city, 
a field, etc. What's interesting about some microsound, and the music of 
Francisco Lopez, for example, is the idea of a nonexistant space, not 
physical, a sound removed from it's environment. This is why people think of 
it as a mental phenomenon, because it is removed from the actual world. It's 
interesting how such an involvement with the world (i.e. field recordings) 
and music that seems completely isolated from it (much laptop music) 
coexists. 

P.S. Francisco Lopez does utilize field recordings, however, he often likes 
to keep his sources secret, and often blindfolds his audience to disconnect 
them from the real world. He is someone who has once said "I have no 
documentary or referential intentions." Because of this, I'd classify him as 
someone who does not believe in the physical space of music.

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