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re:re nissan



> at the present date, the Micro Sound is inherently un-
> massmarketable, i mean, like, Pimmon's not gonna be on mtv
> anytime soon right?

maybe no. some avant garde formalisms become mass music staples, many others
no. i think this is an interesting question regarding whether commercial
support is good for microsound. i think underground practices are defined
oppositionally to mainstream, and one fundamental bright spot imo is a
slight flattening of the virtuosity curve, so that more artists may produce
work and receive attention, and a very mild resistance to capital culture,
meaning that the practice (of soundmaking) can be enjoyed and valued without
rewarding people financially, (or threatening removal of that reward)
Ideally it might value people, their expression, particularity, desire and
belief over their ability to prove virtuosic (masterful, profitable). Of
course other economies are there, cultural capital etc., but my point is
that this art as others has potential to organize human effort and attention
according to a logic which differs (perhaps only slightly) from market
ethics, the (fascist) valorisation of "mass" and thereby necessary
instrumentalization of the smaller/fewer. a mass mediated version would
reduce the number of approaches, produce virtuosic hitmakers, and
restructure the many-to-many (few-to-few) architecture so that control was
centralized- an important prerequisite to profitability. see
commercialization of hip hop for further reference.

brad

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