Concept Queens v. Kim Cascone: blackCube () -- on Dustedmagazine.com

["tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"=B3The quantity of intelligence carried by the sounds must be the true
criterion of the validity of a particular music.=B2 =AD Iannis Xenakis

Under the title =B3Concept Queens,=B2 Kim Cascone posted this apparent quote
from Xenakis to the microsound.org email list on August 25, 2003. Like a
grain it arrived in my Inbox, translated from bits and bytes to my
intelligence, an out-of-context imperative for not only the
contextualization of music but its judgement. With no proper citation, it
was a shard of something substantial left unsaid. And properly invalidated.
And yet it said all it needed to say =AD like a commandment, this sliver was
simple if left unquestioned. If left in its apparent purity, unhooked from
its networks of questioning, it provides the safety and comfort of any dogm=
a
or divine proclamation."

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/969

Some of you might find this interesting.
It pulls a bit from the recent "Concept Queens" discussion.

tV

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