Re: [microsound] white middle class music

["jan.larsson" <jan.l@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think you are a bit hard in comparing US vs. europe. Electronic music and its tools has been dominated by US/canada, europe and japan and trying to determine what part was developed where is impossible (and not very interesting).

On a technological level I'd say everything is pretty much even around the globe. Computers, sound tools and know-how are available at low cost everywhere. 

Wire is a great mag. But another of my favourite magzines is published in the US, Wax Poetics. I'm sure there are others. 

I've been going to live performances, mostly in sweden and finland, of EAM since the 70's when electronic music actually had an audience to the sorry state we are currently experiencing with smaller and smaller audiences.

I dont know what to do to reach outside the current clique. For a while I tried visuals but they tend to "take over". currently I'm experimenting within the good old text/sound tradition of scandinavia.




>I could be way off base but my impression of the rest of the world (as an 
>american looking out) is that there is much more openness elsewhere and less 
>of a desire to categorize and segregate.  For example, I can't imagine a 
>magazine with the breadth of the Wire (spanning Derek Bailey to Missy 
>Elliot) being published in the US.
>
>
>Actually I was simply describing the situation in America as I see it.  If 
>you want to discuss the underlying causes for the way US cities are built 
>vs. European cities and how that effects society we can discuss US car 
>culture, the way the auto companies dismantled public transportation, the 
>culture of fear evidenced by gated communities, or building vertically vs. 
>building horizontally.
>
>But to get back to the original topic, what are your thoughts on why live 
>music audiences are smaller in the US?  Or a better question might be: Is 
>there a smaller audience for live music in the US?  Or is that a 
>misconception?  It would be interesting to hear from listmembers who have 
>toured.
>

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