Re: [microsound] [ot] Derrida

[Caleb Deupree <ctdeupree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've also gotten a lot more out of the postcolonial side of 
contemporary theory as compared to the litcrit side (which is where I 
think it's gotten pretty dull), but I'd be interested in reading more 
about 'post-digital music in the context of globalization.'  In a world 
where we can all become music producers, where complex instruments are 
relatively inexpensive because they're all on the computer, I'm curious 
what you mean by 'post-digital.'  We seem very much within the digital 
realm to me.  But the overwhelming variety of approaches keeps me (at 
least) from becoming 'intimately mired' in one particular approach.  
It's almost like we're approaching a sort of 19th century 'haus' music, 
where everybody played music in their own homes instead of the great 
public spectacles we got in the mid-20th century.

I also see a certain amount of globalization, but with the demise last 
year of some major distribution channels, it almost seems like our 
musical worlds are splintering.  It takes a real effort now to stay in 
touch with artists I care about, and even more difficult to find new 
ones that I like (one of the reasons I like playlists on email lists, 
especially ones that provide contact information for the artists).  I 
see music I like released in smaller and smaller editions -- for 
smaller and smaller audiences?  Now that we can all distribute our 
music on the web, presumably finding listeners across the globe, I'm 
still puzzled why this has contributed to enforced rarity rather than 
the easier access we were all promised.

On Jan 15, 2004, at 8:28 PM, philthom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> There are lots
> of things that can be done with deconstruction: Gayatri Spivak's and 
> Homi
> Bhabha's take postcolonial theory is one example. In my view, they come
> somewhat closer to the spirit of Derrida's project than the US lit-crit
> folks; Spivak, for example, points out that "the only things one
> deconstructs are the things in which one is intimately mired; it speaks
> you; you speak it". This, for me, highlights both the constitutive
> ambivalence of the deconstructive philosophical position, but also its
> link to the social in the context of postmodernity/postcoloniality... 
> This
> is certainly relevant to the practice of "post-digital" music in the
> context of "globalization": it speaks us, we speak it...
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Caleb Deupree
ctdeupree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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