Re: [microsound] microsound and environmentalism

[John Nowak <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 8, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Galen Elfert wrote:

> From reading this list I suspect that many of you are informed, both 
> in your work and life, by an awareness of your impact on the 
> environment. I'm curious to know how you reconcile this with your 
> participation in an artform that seems to necessitate a high rate of 
> consumption of objects whose rate of obsolesence  makes them virtually 
> disposable, and whose materials imply potentially very harmful 
> industrial means of production. That may sound fairly harsh, but it's 
> not meant to be a criticism. These are issues I've been wrestling with 
> myself, with little success, and I'm interested in seeing some other 
> perspectives.

It would seem to me that all you need to produce microsound is a 
computer... and since having a computer today is just about a necessity 
regardless of what art you produce, if any, I don't see any conflict 
between microsound and environmentalism.

- John Nowak


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