Re: [microsound] Death of electronic music

[".kspr" <kspr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One thing about the electronic music in discos and other clubs: They 
are not meant to reflect our time and future. Or help us understand 
something deeper about those issues. It is pure entertainment. But 
maybe the music played in discos and clubs really do reflect our time 
and future and actually helps us understand it: that kind of music have 
only one function, and that is to entertain. Considering our present 
time I find it highly relevant. People are used to, these days, to get 
entertained, to consume, to throw away. The music played in discos is 
just as much part of the play, as any other quiz show on television. 
And another thing, take Britney Spears or her alike, is it not art that 
she can sell millions of albums? Is it not art that Andy Warhol could 
charge 500 USD for opening the window in The Factory for 15 minuts to 
let the noise from New York embrace the people there?
I don't think that everything, including music and other "art" stuff, 
should have that speciel label "art". Art is just a function, a way of 
communication. And some music have another function that you don't have 
to make you reflect upon a lot of deep stuff. It just sounds good. I am 
truly happy about the existence of that kind of music in my record 
collection. I would be fed up with it if I had to do that every time I 
listened to music. Another fucntion could be to entertain or to make 
people dance.

-best
/.kspr

..monobond
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On Jan 17, 2005, at 20:29, Peter Price wrote:

> I agree that there is no such "thing" as art in the same way I don't 
> think there is any such "thing" as consciousness. I suspect that "Art" 
> like "consciousness" is an emergent property of a certain kind of 
> organization...a non linear irruption out of pattern, a 
> deterritorialization from the actual towards the virtual...non 
> localizable but entirely immanent.
>
>
> On Monday, January 17, 2005, at 02:14 PM, Cory wrote:
>
> > is it not obvious to everyone else that this is a solid waste of time 
> > and effort?!
> >
> > there is not such thing as 'art' (gasp!)
> >
> > art is only a communication, the integrity and honesty of which the 
> > only defining value
> >
> > dance is only one manifestation of the communication of joy
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> > audio @ http://www.myspace.com/myo
>
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