Re: [microsound] Re: no input mixing board

[scott allison <lipistal3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julian, thanks for your email,

I guess maybe new is not the best term, but for me its new, so I know that 
is not a good enough reason to call something new, so your are right there. 
I guess in terms of minimalism I have found the mentioned work to have a 
stillness and intensity that I have not heard in a lot of other recent 
music, but then again there is a ton of stuff I have not heard. I would love 
if you could point me in the direction of some other past artists that have 
worked with close ideas/forms. Also I have found for me seeing performers 
working with many sounding devises to be interesting in terms of sound 
possiblites and curious in the visual aspect of a performance. Not to say 
one is better than the other.

But so using the term new is probably not a good thing. But maybe its ok for 
a new group of musicans to revisit something for a current audience?

Anyhow hope that makes some sense, but please let me know what artists you 
consider relate to this subject, I woud love to have a better understanding 
historically.

Thanks
Scott

> i am interested in how you see it as new, ie how you see it as 
> fundamentally different from 'first wave' minimalism. Could you elaborate 
> on this?
>
> I must say, at times I struggle to see what further there is to add... 
> (pardon the pun) and question whether we are just re-visiting pretty 
> familiar territory. I'm not sure the tools are that significant (ie 
> software vs samplers, test equipment etc...). That is not to say that I 
> don't see any value in this music, just that in no sense have I been able 
> to experience it as 'new'. I actually hear it in some ways as fetishising 
> the 'old' (if you can call the 60s and 70s 'old'.

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