From: Christos Carras <ear@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [microsound] microsound vs. DJ culture
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:56:44 +0200
john saylor wrote:
but that is how they establish an individual and open releationship to
the world of sound- by re-using the material. instead of thinking of the
available world as 'sounds you can make with a piano' or 'sounds you can
make with a couple of guitars, drums, and a ton of amplification'; this
is 'sounds you can make with electronic audio processing'.
musicians always try to copy what they like. how many bands try to sound
like kraftwerk once in a while? re-using [re-contextualizing] sounds
made by others is just a more direct way of acknowledging the influence.
so while there are plenty of problems in the world today- i see re-mix
culture as a positive thing, an example of how the creative impulse
refuses to die.
music has a strange capacity to coalesce into something that feels
coherent, unlike language or even visual imagery which more easily brings
out the contradictions that some "re-contextualisations" can generate. of
course there are extreme strategies of montage that don't function this
way, but overall i don't see that re-mixing often gets further than
confirming the interesting age-old observation that "we never bathe in the
same river twice". but again, maybe i don't have enough exposure to re-mix
pieces and shall certainly try to get hold of some that were mentioned.
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