Re: [microsound] future in our ears

[Bernhard Living <bernhard.living@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ant

Yeah - music as always been prophetic - and has always been there to 
bring in the avant garde. Beethoven was way ahead of his contemporaries 
in literature and the visual arts - as was Webern and the Italian 
Futurists with their interest in noise. John Cage was using electronics 
and cut-up techniques almost forty years before visual artists got 
around to using multimedia.

The important contribution that music is making at the moment is the 
idea of the mix and the remix. These are very post-modern concepts - 
with the DJ being the ultimate post-modern artist. What this means is 
that boundaries are being broken down - things are getting less defined 
and getting more hybrid. Everything is getting very seamless (look at 
how Apple have connected the Ipod with the PowerBook and of wireless 
connectivity using BlueTooth).

Pretty well anything can go into the mix - fine art or trash - it all 
gets mixed together. It?s also great that musicians can share audio 
files (whether in WAV, AIF or MP3 ) and remix each others work. This is 
something that visual artists have only just got around to doing.

Music is also becoming very cross-cultural - and is making an important 
contribution to urban culture. For example, you can find musicians in 
India who are making hip-hop and incorporating samples of tabla drums 
and sitar. And this is only the beginning.

I think the future is going to get very interesting. Everything?s going 
to get very mixed-up and confused - which is a great situation to be in.

DJ B

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Ant Weiss wrote:

>In the article that ph!L posted a while ago, Jacques Attali  says that
>"music is prophetic". This isn't the first time I see this claim about music
>marching in the avantgarde  and predicting the developments in other planes
>of human action like culture, technology and science.
>Staying in this thread, which developments do list people think that
>microsound is predicting?
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>We all want to know what's gonna happen to this world, now that things are
>moving so fast in the 21rst century. Can our music maybe tell us what to
>expect?
>Curious to hear what others think.
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>Ant.
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