[microsound] Yoda, Derrida, Curtis Roads, Software, Scenes, the environment

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You're not going to find out much by asking questions. You have to do 
it to understand! Yoda this, Yoda that...

Finally someone said it....while I think asking questions can be a very positive 
and productive way of working through things to get to other things, many of 
these issues of context, listening, and working methods really exist at a purely 
experiential level.   As someone who has played guitars, basses, drums, 
keyboards and worked in various recording and performance situations for many, 
many years, I often find my self focussing on certain technical aspects of 
recordings and performances, but this is just one level of my experience and 
analysis of music and art, context can be a factor that informs and draws one 
deeper in to a piece of work or even a "scene" (so often cultivated and even 
manufactured by journalists and critics) but there is much more to it than that.   
Culture functions much like democracy, in a very unpredictable way, where the 
meanings of certain gestures take on a life and autonomy of their own regardless 
of the intent of the producers of that gesture.   !
The intent may be to highlight or elucidate or explore a process, but the result 
may be a response that has more to do with the romantic notion of "the 
sublime"-----I use this as a for instance because it seems to happen a lot with 
computer music and contemporary art music.   How often does it happen that 
process music takes on the onus of "the beautiful" while pop music made with 
computers get analyzed in terms of its technical processes?  I'm not just 
talking about dub and hip-hop on the one hand and Autechre on the 
other.........the process is bigger than one piece of music, or one generation 
of listeners, whether we know it or not, we are working through certain human, 
experiential and conceptual issues......where the train goes noone really 
knows.....

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