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Re: [microsound] A simple question- dropliftin some laptop jazz into your e-mail



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i think there is a major difference in the potential for creating electronically produced music betweeen digital and analog media.  maybe it is easier to integrate abstract ideas like waveform, ratio, equation, frequency, etc into sound due to the basic discrete or discontinous nature of digital media and the kind of variations or edits (or visually displayed information addressing sound) that are now possible (or just feasible to work with).  we have the tools to experiment in a "sonically tactile" way with ideas like "perfect sine wave" at frequency 440 hz at 60 % of maximum volume output.  a computer recieves, computes, sends, and stores numbers.  numeric relationships (mathematics) have a universal quality (in any solar system, even if the space does curve between here and there) that will never change for as long as time as we know it exists.  a single number can be imagined by itself in a thought for a moment, but that thought will come after the last thought and before the
 next thougt.  everything that can be sensed occupies duration in time of volume in space therefore a part of something else and therefore temporary.  i belive in perfection as a goal to potentially be approaced like "nothing" or "silence" or the way the curve of x-squared approaches the quality of a vertical line but never actually becomes one, and that approach will change something about yourself, or something you intend to create in the image of the type of perfection you imagine.  there is a range between completely not perfect and unattainbly perfect to work with.  it comes down to where your imagination wants to take you with what it has available and the element of chance and discovery, whether that be pushing buttons and turning knobs at a computer,  tapping out a rhythmn on the bedposts of a prison cell, or singing to yourself while doing your families laundry in your local river.  nothing lasts forever and everything changes, maybe a perfect arrangement for some.  sorry to
 anyone who had to roll their eyes at any of that very square response- maybe somebody could put a deleuzian spin on the electronic perfection question? B.W.O? 
-loren

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