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Re: [microsound] Re: no input mixing board



On Friday, February 20, 2004, at 02:06  AM, scott allison wrote:

Personaly the work of the members of off-site, TN being one of the founders, is incredibly rich in its simplicity and performative intensity. Definitly a new take on minimalism

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'.


Also a different understanding of space and time

again, in what sense? ie these two musical parameters have been pretty well 'mined', especially in post 50s experimentalism.



a single guitar pluck can be the entire basis for a set

<devil's advocate>

like the work of taku sugimoto for example?

i can't see what the conceptual contribution is here. It all seems quite derivative of older musics almost to the point of copying. Granted, you could argue that all music is derivative in one way or another, but one hopes to hear the ideas personalised and transformed.

</devil's advocate>




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