R: [microsound] fwd: Boulez Project Invitation

["Andrea Valle" <marta_andrea@xxxxxxxxx>]

As it is a form of conceptual art, the material performance is accidental in
respect to the project (otherwise we have effectively to suspect a
'book-burning', as it is destruction in itself to be important): so, I will
ask the author if he can send me the donations...

ciao

-a-

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Aaron Ximm [mailto:ghede@xxxxxxxx]
Inviato: sabato 5 luglio 2003 11.39
A: microsound
Oggetto: Re: [microsound] fwd: Boulez Project Invitation

> so the americans are taking the next step now. book (well, almost)
> burning.
> first victim is a french composer (of course).
> how crude.

It seems to me that you are not giving the instigator of this project
enough credit. I don't personally find it very interesting, but I do at
least appreciate the humor in documenting the destruction of copies of
works by someone who themselves called for such an action rhetorically.

I don't find this any more interesting in execution than in concept,
unless there is something more subtle than the email described.

...but I do think it's silly to simply dismiss this as 'book burning' and
to assume some knee-jerk anti-France sentiment is at work. It may be
crude, but at least it's crude in a funny way, not a fascist one.

My $.02...

 aaron

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