Re: [microsound] noise to signal (subjective...)

[Bill Ashline <ashline@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:46:02 -0500, graham miller
<grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> i wasn't going to bring this up, but aside from the odd link, every two
> months, which occasionally starts a thread, where is the participation of
> said list creator(s)?  i hardly see any input or interaction. maybe it's
> all off list? lurking? aside from starting threads with single sentence
> posts, i don't see a lot of effort on behalf of the 'admin' staff in
> engaging anyone else's opinions or thoughts... 

I dont mean to speak for Kim here, but as for me, I don't participate
as much anymore because there really is an overwhelming amount of what
I would term "noise."  But as Aaron so ably put it, it's my "noise,"
not necessarily yours.    I read through most of the posts with my
brain turned off, occasionally waking up when somebody says something
snotty about Adorno or something, only then wishing I had stayed
asleep or was perhaps acting as if someone really had indeed woken me
up from a sublime slumber in saying as much.  Playlists, announcements
for concerts I'll never be able to attend, an arcane technical
question dealing with a program or PC--these are the routine clicks of
my list somnolence.  I scan through them and delete, not even
remembering what 90% of them are about.  But, yeah, a bit of a beefy
discussion about musical aesthetics of any kind would likely wake me
out of this lumbering state, but I'd be hard pressed to start one
right now because I don't really have anything to say off the top of
my head in this vein.  I've been reading Negri & Hardt's Multitude at
the moment rather than about musical aesthetics, but I did just buy a
copy of Christoph Cox' Audio Culture, which I hope to get to soon.  So
maybe we can read and discuss that on this list at some point.  We
never did get very deep into David Toop's Haunted Weather, so that
might be worth coming back to.  Or perhaps we should just discuss
KIm's Aesthetics of Failure or just the Failure of Aesthetics.

-- 
Phonograph, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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