Re: [microsound] adorno essays

["Todd Wallar" <omniverse@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was a bit hasty with my comment about that article, sorry. Something about
it really turned me off.
I believe Gann has a few things backwards. Understanding the
commercialization and socialetal role of music has little bearing on whether
or not a particular piece of music is good (aesthetics). Granted, such
analysis does serve to better understand a culture. But you must establish
an aesthetic framework first.
Without such, all one can do is create more labels and categories
(unpopular, anticorporate, degenerate, entertainment) to serve a political
agenda, and worse, confuse them with aesthetic values (honesty, style) as
Gann has done. This only contributes to the alienation that Gann says he is
trying to avoid.

No, I have not read the essays. I assume they are more enlightening than
that article.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Cascone" <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound_list" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:13 AM
Subject: [microsound] adorno essays

> > tell me something i don't know
> so then you have read this collection? if so, how was it? can you comment
on
> the translation of the essays?
>
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