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Re: [microsound] microsound vs. DJ culture
in the "History of Music" there is a significant tradition of
reinterpretation or integration or quoting or re-arrangement of
previous original works.
it is not so common in the "History of Contemporary Music" b/c of
images of the individualist associated with rock/roll.
i feel one of the problems w/ "remix culture" is that it has a tendency
to be lazy/thoughtless.
which musically comes off more as a listing of current fads in DIY
production than as a statement or poetic abstraction.
(see relative sustainability of "movements" in remix culture.
in general, i see music currently being permeated more by small
micro-movemnts,
so maybe i shouldn't generalize TOO much)
i understand as a weird consumer-style tendency -
to consume and expel as much as possible.
(for a fine indictment of sampling, see eddie prevost's new book p.21 -
'ascendancy of sound over sense')
it is hard for me to draw lines like "smart sampling" or "dumb remixing"
but i'm feeling the pressure of those qualifiers -
and i DO have a fondness for a great sampling or ecstatic remix
(a couple of regular dj mixes do populate my itunes)
hm.
b.
hi
( 05.01.15 23:48 +0200 ) Christos Carras:
it seems to me that the re-use of tracks is dangerously close to
manifesting a cultural problem, viz the inability of the contemporary
subject (consumer and artist) to break through the mirror and
establish an individual and / or open relation to the world of sound.
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.
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