Re: [microsound] no OS

["bitmoth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bitmoth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<<How can you ever approach an artwork with the absolute intellectual=20
certainty you ask for without resorting to an official truth as determined=
=20
by a political, artistic, or intellectual establishment?>>

by responding to it in a physical instead of intellectual way=2E by=20
LISTENING to the thing instead of PIGEONHOLING the thing=2E if you=20
enjoy critiquing everything in your life, then more power to you=2E i, on =
the=20
other hand, prefer to take things in as a whole=2E if something sounds=20
godawful, i don't care how much thought or intellect went into it, it just=
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sounds godawful=2E john cage, for instance, i can't stand to listen to his=
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prepared piano pieces because, though i love his writing and=20
interviews with him, because he makes such cogent points, to me the=20
music is just deadly dull=2E i'd much rather listen to someone like=20
charlemagne palestine who took some of those ideas and applied=20
them to more interesting harmonic movement=2E but let me be clear that=20
TO ME, guided by voices is a far more satisfying musical outfit than=20
most microsound music is, but it can never account for everything i feel,=20=

or cover all my moods=2E i love all types of music, anything done with=20
honesty, and that doesn't have it's head up it's own ass=2E
and also, i think it's amusing that you have decided not to take any=20
trouble to answer my actual query, which was where the art-becoming=20
takes place, in the audience or the artist or in the art itself=2E just li=
ke
an=20
experimental musician, to pay attention to the particulars and lose sight=20=

of the point=2E
=2Edevon:

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