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

[derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>]

Dear micronauts,

Michael Andrew Doherty wrote:
> I heartily agree with the need to converse about our art and music in a
> community (like the Europeans). 

As do I, being an adopted European ;-)

But I will fess up that I was one of the people to wrote to Kim off-list 
 about an announce-only version of microsound. And the reason being the 
opposite of what you might think! The discussion that has come up around 
this particular topic might be some of the better discussion I've seen 
in months around here. I asked for an announce version of the list 
because I've gotten disappointed in the level of discussion that mostly 
happens lately.

I guess I'll just come out and say it: this is NOT the IDM list. Early 
on, this list was a real haven for intellectual discussion about issues 
surrounding what Kim calls "post-digital" music. But I think we've 
already seen some of our brightest minds disappear because of the 
general drop in IQ of the average post. Go back and look at the early 
archives and count the number of amazing folks (many of whom were quite 
happy to contribute in list project) who almost never participate 
anymore: Akira Rabelais(R. Ecalcitrance), Taylor Deupree, Stephan 
Mathieu, Ross Healy(Cray), Greg Taylor(C74), Philip Sherburne, TV Pow, 
Steve Roden, Richard Chartier...

For me at least, microsound is not a fanboy music list, and it's not a 
blog where you can just copy/paste whatever off-topic junk you absorbed 
from other mass-internet-media whenever you get an itch in your ass. And 
cheesy one-liners or negative slapdowns by kids with lots of opinions 
formed in their bedrooms and little experience to back it up don't 
contribute to any kind of real discussion either.

But, by and large, this is what I've found on this list increasingly. So 
I've stopped paying much attention to the banter and concentrated on 
announcements of what my peers are up to, no matter where they happen to 
reside or perform. So if there were a version of microsound which 
focused on the interesting releases and events and left the blogboy 
babble out of the picture, I'd glady move over for a while till the 
fluff settles.

best wishes,
derek


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