Re: [microsound] digital (was Make your own vinyl)

[Massimiliano Viel <mail@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have to admit my mouth is somewhat agape from this sort of tunnel vision.
>
> While digital media will certainly continue to flourish, I disagree 
> that there is an 'aesthetic' that is specific to digital media. With 
> your argument intact, a guitarist who does nothing but release 
> digital files of their acoustic work exists outside of the 'digital 
> vacuum', but the aesthetic of the music doesn't change (perhaps in 
> some cases it might if we were arguing live vs. recorded).
>
> I'm not so sure a discussion of aesthetics even includes the 
> presence of 1 & 0's or an analog signal.

In my opinion, an aesthetics (in a philosophical meaning) specific to 
digital media is possible, even if it is not necessary, as digital 
media in general brings new approaches to knowledge and 
information... let us think of the possibility to mix very different 
concepts via their "universal" translation into ones and zeros... it 
is something near to the Hermann Hesse's "Glass Bead Game" and the 
its tribute in the "general morphology" conception coming from 
composers like Stockhausen and Xenakis...

On the other side, I consider the "sound" suggestions coming from the 
usage of computers and machines, like noises, glitches and radio 
signals, more... beauticianity (it works better in italian where 
"estetista", the beauty specialist, is a word near to "esteta", 
aesthete") and in fact far from a "digital media aesthetics".
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