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[ot] Re: [microsound] this list is the most banal disinteresting one that i've everreceived 2000+ posts from



basically the only thing i can say about your rant is that it is really
simple: if your sick of this culture and of the nonsense on the list
unsubscribe, don't read it,

i cant say i disagree with everything you said but you have to realize that
this is more than a discussion group is a international community (800
subscribers was the last number i heard) and with daily interaction there is
nonsense, you have to expect a certain ratio of waste when it comes to
humans.

j.frede
current location:los angeles
http://ritualdocument.com/jfrede
po.box 292045 los angeles, ca 90029

----- Original Message -----
From: "DEVON ARMSTRONG" <devonarmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 11:22 AM
Subject: [microsound] this list is the most banal disinteresting one that
i've everreceived 2000+ posts from

> i've tried. i've read these messages. i know i'm not adding anything
> positive or constructive by adding this my first message, but i can't
> understand how so many people can be interested in so much shit!
>
> i've rarely if ever read a post on here with anything beyond superficial
and
> banal content.  has anything been stated on here that was not garbled
rehash
> of something they had read in this month's Wire?  i'm so sick of this
> culture - it has so little to do with music - or art (and i know that this
> will set off a string of responses criticizing my closed-mindedness, my
> inability to understand the gravity and scope of these new frontiers!).
> please, do not heckle me, either, for being a naysayer.  i'm enjoy looking
> into the future of music the way everyone on here does.  i'm just
frustrated
> with this scene that has become, if it ever wasn't, so pretentious and
> unoriginal.  this vocabulary that everyone, including myself, has learned!
> the way there are certain musics, composers, musicians, philosophers, etc,
> that everyone has accepted at the same time as being important are
revered!
> the self-promotion of hundreds of dull unoriginal "artists" all trying to
> advance themselves  - to what end?
>
> i'm sure that many people on here find worth in this list.  and its good
if
> wider interests are encouraged and fostered here.  but c'mon - not
> everything is good!  not every piece of music is worth listening to!
> everytime you record something with your minidisc player - it isn't
> neccesarily art!   not everytime you listen to mozart are you stuck in the
> past or failing to move forward!   not everything that hurts your ears in
> beautiful!  everytime you mention some artist or work doesn't mean you are
> any closer to its genius!  everytime you use Pi in a compositional process
> doesn't make it experimental!  everytime you make something that the
> majority of the world's population doesn't "understand",  that doesn't
make
> mean you're doing something new, something worth sharing, something that
is
> art!
>
> the fact that so many people are sharing their stuff on here and need a
> community in order to validate themselves makes me even more convinced
that
> this entire scene has so very little to do with sound and everything to do
> with being social.  so in that case - keep it up...but don't think that
what
> goes on on this list has any importance in any other way.
>
>
> i'm sorry for the tone that this has taken, but after reading another load
> of useless posts, i thought it was finally time to get involved.
>
>
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