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

["Dominic Lanzone" <dubvurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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!

first, allow me to be possibly be a bit cheesy and quote Jeru the Damaja
(hopefully i get the quote correct from memory): 
"there is no good or bad, there just is. and when there just is, you have
the power to form and shape. now witness the wrath of the math." 

maybe instead of telling other people how their aesthetic does not match
yours, and then acting like that is some sort of a problem that they need
to fix, you could better spend your time and energy by exploring your OWN
aesthetic, making things that you WANT to exist, creating the spaces for
them, and maybe finding others to share them with that appreciate them. 
you said little or nothing in your post about what you DO wish existed,or
even what is important to you that you feel is not being discussed, you
just spoke of what you didn't like. 
'something new, something worth sharing, something that is art' are all
subjective. 
what is art to one person is tar or rat to another. it all depends on what
you are bringing to it as a listener/viewer/experiencer, what kind of
context/history you see it as having, and the ways in which you are
experiencing it in the moment. wether you choose to find value in something
or not is your problem, not anyone elses. boredom is also YOUR problem,
part of what you seem to be saying is that you are not finding novelty in
what the microsound people are creating. so? newness and originality don't
exist. the closest you are going to get is rarity, but, that is also
subjective and dependent on your history of exposure to what you are
qualifying as 'rare' or 'not rare'. 

rah rah rah,
Dominic 
 

 
 

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