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Re: [microsound] laptop music is the new jazz
>>> believe devslashnull was first to observe, the laptop has
>>> turned computer-based music into the new folk music.
> well this might be the first connection between folk music and laptop but
> the connection between electronic music genres and grass-root music has been
> made over and over again...
> I remember Pita mentioning the connections between jazz and laptop at a
> performance/panel discussion we did in Stuttgart a couple of years ago...I
> think this comment was made in response to a question from the audience
> about Merzbow and Jazzkammer playing at a jazz festival in EU somewhere...
laptop + jazz is not a bad comparison in some ways. but maybe problematic,
in that (for me) jazz is so thoroughly rooted in the experience of being
Black in America, and it may be a mistake to think of the music apart from
that.
maybe the comparison can make sense, if you view laptop music as an
expression of the experience of being White and in Front Of A Computer.
[...not really serious -- am just noting the attractiveness of these kind of
exciting but sort-of-useless pronouncements: laptop is the new folk,
quiet is the new loud, etc etc]
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