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Re: [microsound] microsound kiosk - adorno




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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