RE: [microsound] data -> sound examples

[christos carras <ear@xxxxxxxxx>]

"I think (in many cases) it's got more to do with data per se  - or at 
least, a cultural idea about data as a stuff or substance, or as a 
sphere of activity." MW

this is a core issue in my opinion: the perception of data as somehow being
unmediated by subjective preference, at least at the level of the sonic
result. This desire to circumvent the subject has been at the heart of many
avant-garde processes (including extreme forms of serialism). 

However it seems clear that - as human constructs - all forms of data are
bearers of a rationality that is not transparent. It maybe that this urge to
find unmediated sound structures and identifying data sets, streams, bases
(in whatever form) with such an "essential" structure in the process, is a
very contemporary form of reification, in other words forgetting (at least)
the subjective and relational dimensions that are involved.

christos





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