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Re: [microsound] digital (was Make your own vinyl)
Your role of devil's advocate was not coming across on your posts, my
apologies.
On May 31, 2005, at 4:02 PM, graham miller wrote:
yes. yes, there actually is a digital aesthetic. without the 100 page
essay, look into glitch as a genre, or any other digital music that is
self-referential. the second people start composing music out of
granular
synthesis or buffer overrided drum patterns, they are engaging a
digital
aesthetic.
I'd prefer the 100 page essay, actually.
I think it's beyond the scope of aesthetics to apply "an aesthetic"
to something as trivial as the presentation medium, or even the
compositional method and procedure.
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.
Yeah, I can hear FFT crap in every IDM composer from here to Sunday.
I know what you mean, but I think 'digital aesthetic' is the wrong
term, and wrong way to think about aesthetics.
yeesh... and i though this was the microsound list, not the
bluegrass list...
Hey now, I am from the south! I love bluegrass. And bluegrass will
live as long as the mountains do, regardless of what the digital
literati have to say.
But this isn't the microsound-digital list either. As plenty of folks
on here have discussed (somewhat recently in fact), there are many
many microsound artists that have nothing to do with glitch, or even
digital, music.
no. that guitarist is trying to use the digital media as
transparently as
possible, no mask its inherent digital qualities. the myths of
transparency
and fidelity are very much at the root of musical stagnation and
redundancy.
I'm not following you at all, please explain what you mean here.
matt
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