Re: [microsound] microsound kiosk - adorno

[Julian Knowles <julianknowles@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 08:50  AM, Christos Carras wrote:
> INdeed his writings on "mass culture" instictively make you think that 
> he's
> just a snob. It's certainly true that he did not take the time to come 
> into
> contact with more alternative forms of "mass culture" especially later 
> in
> life. Nonetheless there is IMHO a real danger in missing the valid 
> points he
> makes out of a desire to avoid being a snob.

for me it its more than just his use of the notion mass culture, it his 
tendency to try and put 'art' above a market economy and argue as if a 
high/low split is viable ( or indeed a 'given').

> Maybe i was not clear enough: i'm not relating Adorno's thought to 
> computer
> music, i' trying to examine the tension between his later writings of 
> music
> (e.g. those in Quasi una fantasia) and the practices of computer music.
>
> ON this though, "modernist" and "computer music" are not necessarily
> contradictory.

Completely agreed.... actually if you think about it, computers are now 
considered artifacts of 'mass culture'!!! They're also cut and past 
machines..... not terribly modernist at all!!

regards

julian


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