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Re: [microsound] digital (was Make your own vinyl)
On May 31, 2005, at 5:24 PM, graham miller wrote:
I'd prefer the 100 page essay, actually.
ask kim.
Ah yes, I've read the 2-3 articles he's written on the subject. I am
not aware that there was a longer piece tho, is there Kim?
In other words, you may not be able to tell from one recording to
another if the artist used digital tools to create sounds, or used
live recordings that have been mixed together. The emotional response
and subjective opinion of that piece has a lot more to do with its
aesthetic than how it was recorded or what plugins were used.
really? how? are you so sure you can tell the difference?
Well that's my whole point, you cannot. I make no claim that I have
some sort of super power to do so, I doubt anybody does.
would we have rock music if it wasn't for distortion?
Distortion was never digital. Maybe that's not your point, but rock
music doesn't require distortion, it never did. The paths it took
most certainly do, but as a 'basic' style (speaking in hugely generic
terms) it certainly doesn't require it.
wouldn't the emotive qualities of a
guitar solo change depending on what kind of amp its played
through? why
the need for producers or engineers at all, if the 'music' speaks for
itself?
Well we could sit here all night and throw examples back and forth,
but all we'll conclude is that they're all different for every
situation. Ergo, it doesn't make a lot of sense to categorically
condemn music to being a slave to the bit.
as do i. but i'm more in the béla fleck and his electric midi banjo
camp.
Here here, I love Bela! Check out his non-electronic stuff with New
Grass Revival and his acoustic albums too after the Flecktones got
started. Such an awesome player, seen him live a few times. The
Flecktones actually got me into listening to music with 'electronics'
in it, way back when they first got started and did shows in rural
North Carolina. :)
All the same, as long as there is folk, there will be folk music. If
they don't have computers, it won't be digital.
microsound can only exist with digital music. it's a stems from
singular
samples, nyquist's theorem, and microscopic aural phenomena made
audible
only through modern technology. i think the whole idea is
fundamentally
digital, although it's not really my area of expertise.
I suggest you look into the work of John Cage, Morton Feldman, La
Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Meredith Monk, Stewart
Dempster, and Joe McPhee. These are all artists whose work has
inspired and brought me to the world of microsound, and did so well
before 'digital microsound' ever existed. I think you'll find that
microsound has an extremely rich heritage which has nothing to do
with computers at all.
matt
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