Re: [microsound] Death of electronic music

[chthonic streams <chthonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Jan 23, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Arie van Schutterhoef wrote:
>
> > > Or rather, a completely unimportant notion that I've read 100 times
> > > since I began signing up for mailing lists.
>
> > -Maybe not all people spend their time in that way and they
> >  might find this an important topic to be reminded of.
> >  Maybe as remedy to your overload, try unsubscribing.
>
> How is this knowledge important, and who are these people that need 
> to be reminded of it?

i think some people could benefit from thinking about it that way for 
a few seconds, but these are people who would never be on this list. 
i'm talking about mind-numbingly traditionalist people who fancy 
themselves musical purists.  they worship at the altar of blues-based 
rock guitar or still bemoan when dylan went electric, without 
considering all the electronic gadgets that make their heroes sound 
the way they do, whether onstage or on record.

unless people sit in a small room with the musicians singing and 
playing an acoustic with no sound support whatsoever, they're 
experiencing some measure of electronics affecting the music (and 
even the smallest amount makes a significant difference).  so to 
dismiss music purely because the sound  originates from an electronic 
source is not seeing the forest for the trees.

however, here i believe such a topic is splitting hairs, preaching to 
the converted, or just annoying people.

d.

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