Re: [microsound] State of Music

[guido henneböhl <ghenneboehl@xxxxxxxx>]

 --- graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
schrieb: 
> skip it. i'm doing basically the same kind of thing
> and god knows, i know how
> hard it is...
> 
> forget the history. or least the history of music.
> flank the topic from the
> sides. military tactics. never attack from the
> front. talk about digital.
> talk about nyquist's theorem. talk about ticking
> clocks as the smallest
> division of time incarnate in sound. talk about the
> CLICK of a mouse. or the
> CLATTER of keystrokes. talk about the ambient sound
> of an office cubicle.
> talk about cell phone rings and digital alarm
> clocks. talk about things which
> make no sound other than what we ascribe to them.
> 
> everyone talks about detroit. about kraftwerk.
> enough already. at this point,
> who cares? ancient history.  half those guys are
> afraid of computers... are
> afraid of failing. afraid of the glitches. they hide
> behind history, afraid
> to put out new albums because they know how archaic
> they really are. old
> timers with foot in second hand music store. better
> to cower behind legend
> than take a risk. at least george lucas fell flat on
> his face. more than
> derrick may can say.
> 
> if you can't make a point, it's because you don't
> have one. keep your eye on
> the prize.  what is it specifically that strikes you
> about this music? you.
> forget what everybody else thinks. they have there
> own ideas. just because
> they are published doesn't make their ideas any more
> valid. most of Them have
> no clue about music. too busy writing words than
> making sounds. what makes an
> idea valid is the quality, originality and
> articulation of the argument
> presented. write down your idea and then find
> other's with a similar
> viewpoint to legitimize. it makes the brass in the
> ivory towers of lala land
> happy.
> 
> write your paper backwards. start with post-digital
> (whatever the hell that
> means...) and work back to the stone age. screw with
> the format. and if they
> give you a bad mark, you can give them the middle
> finger. the samurais say
> 'to thine ownself be true.' ditto goes for school.
> go onomatopoeic.
> 
> make analogies. find analogies. across the spectrum
> of life. outside music.
> recycling blue bins and LEGO toys are better tools
> for talking about the
> music of today than semitones and quarter notes. 
> netscape and norton's
> utilities are just as much music software as logic
> or reaktor.
> 
> listen to the sound of the modem at the convenience
> store, crackling and
> burbling when you run your cigarette order through
> with a credit card.  or
> the sound of pornography not quite decoded on the
> pay-per-view station you
> haven't paid for.
> 
> that's the music of today. sometimes when you're
> zoomed in  %1600  in
> photoshop, you can't see that what you're actually
> looking at is still one
> giant square pixel.  you got to step back at see the
> pixel for what it is.
> 
> excelsior.
> 
> g.

great! thats not just a comment but pure poetry to me!
it really matches my thoughts on post-digital
aesthetics. how about this version  ...   :-))


flank the topic from the sides. 
military tactics. 
never attack from the front. 

talk about digital. 

talk about nyquist's theorem. 
talk about ticking clocks 
as the smallest division of time 

incarnate in sound. 


talk about the CLICK of a mouse. 
or the CLATTER of keystrokes. 
talk about the ambient sound 
of an office cubicle.

talk about cell phone rings 
and digital alarm clocks. 
talk about things which
make no sound 
other 
than what we ascribe to them.


old timers 
with foot in second hand music store. 
better to cower behind legend than
take a risk. 
at least george lucas fell flat on his face. 
more 
than derrick may can say.

write your paper backwards.
make analogies. 
find analogies. 
across 

the spectrum of life. 



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