Re: [microsound] Re: microsound kiosk

[Aaron Ximm <ghede@xxxxxxxx>]

> Kim Cascone wrote:
> should I start booting people off the list who post promotional content
> and nothing else?

Hey all,

As someone in the guilty category of late, I thought I'd describe my own
position -- this is neither a mea culpa, nor a defense, just a
communication of my situation -- and get a sense of the consensus on
whether I should cease posting events listings.

It's worth beginning by saying that I stay on this list because I place a
lot of value in the discussions that happen here: but rarely do I have
time to respond to them with the nuance and research that is often
required.

One reason I often don't have the time is that my energy is going in other
directions -- eg, my own work, and in contest, the concert series I host.
(Having a fulltime day job doesn't help.)

Hosting concerts for me is not a money making venture (I lose money), it's
a way I try to make a contribution: to the scene, the community, the
artform (sound art broadly, granted, not microsound -- though I think
there is a lot of crossover interest, of course).

Of course, I realize that posting information them here is promotion --
and I do post to other revelant lists as well, so I'm gulity of
cross-posting.  I recognize that such postings are of at best marginal
interest to people in other areas, and of interest only to some locally.
(I know the argument that it's valuable to have a sense of what's going on
globally... but no need to rehash it.)

So: does the value of doing these shows communicate enough benefit to the
community to warrant their being posted here? How can that be judged?

I'm genuinely interested in hearing what people think... though I'll leave
it to someone else to judge whether those responses themselves should best
be kept off-list...?

(My personal experience is that I learn about plenty of events I would
like to attend, locally but more often on other continents, through
postings such as my own.)

(I feel a bit of a catch-22 here, I could devote more time to engaging in
dialog, and hence gain a clear perogative to promote, but at the expense
of having as much *to* promote...!

But perhaps this list really is/should be a place reserved for dialog?)

 best regards,
  aaron

  ghede@xxxxxxxx
  http://www.quietamerican.org

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