[microsound] promo/spam/whatever

[Gregory Taylor <gtaylor@xxxxxxxx>]

Over the course of the last N years, I've certainly programmed
quite a lot of work that falls into the category of microsound
stuff. However, RTQE is *by no means* entirely oriented to
the subgenre -- and I'm doing that on purpose. You don't invite
people into the discourse by preaching to the choir, in my view.
And I've personally got very little time for genre ghettos - IMHO,
they're of limited use to anyone but marketers and those folks
who would peg their currency of cool to fenced and defended
turf (you know who I'm talking about. They're the usual source
of the "this genre is crap now that more people know about than
me and my 3 friends....").

So while I'd certainly like to have everyone on the microsound
list send me all kinds of promos, I personally think that posting
my own playlists serves no purpose except for my own acquisition,
and remain quiet accordingly. Were I doing an extremely more
focused programming, I expect that I would feel and behave
differently. But the honest truth is that I'm not.

As a radio programmer reading this list, tho' I appreciate the occasional
announcement, I confess to having an extremely strong preference
for the link-only ones, and a particular dispreference for poorly
written promo stuff dispensed with machine-gun "accuracy" to
N lists, or distributed more than once, etc. And I never post my
own gig spam here - local lists do much better for that.

Personally, the spam/promo stuff is starting to mess with the
signal/noise ratio. While your opportunities for promotion are
greater, I'm reading it less. And I might be one of the people
you'd like to reach.

Your mileage, I am sure, will vary.

gregory taylor/RTQE (http://www.rtqe.net/RTQE.html)


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