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Re: [microsound] the great depression of experimental music?

Praemedia wrote: 
No, my assertation was that there must BE a residue.
It was in response to someone dismissing music as
ephemeral.

I don't think it was a dismissal. Insofar as both notation and recording can only capture a /representation/ of the music, it is indeed ephemeral. Recording works better for some musics than others (say, completely free improv). Some music never gets recorded at all, yet develops. This suggests to me that there is some sort of residue anyway, whether we try to capture it or not/

You keep adding commercial to my arguments.

Sorry, I thought you had been making the case that without commercial distribution, muscian's would be too poor to either practice or distribute their own material.

i prefer to leave the door open for
exiting capitalism

If that happens, wouldn't the entire set of motivations for distributing music as a commodity be somewhat different anyway?

And open-source efforts that match or surpass their
commercial counterparts.


I will probably be rained upon with the wrath of hell
now, but I'll go ahead and say that I have yet to see
an example of this.

Just a light drizzle :) In terms of music software, and its usablilty, you /may/ be right - but not for much longer. Open source DAWs, editors, plugins and plug-in fraemworks are now good enough for people to work (and rely) on them. There are open-source projects, e.g. SuperCollider, that have no commercial equivalent at all. Where open-source is, by and large, slower to develop is in terms of documentation and UI nicities, but that's been getting better and better.

Outside of music software, you have the old standards of things like Apache, Linux, GCC, Firefox etc.




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