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Re: [microsound] niblock (woolgathering pretty diverse)



re: phil niblock---i highly recommend TOUCH WORKS, FOR HURDY GURDY AND VOICE.  I find it hard to speak intelligently about this music, it has had such a profound effect on my listening/hearing/production.  I do find it interesting that there is not much discussion on this list of many of the artists on the fringe of what was once dubbed 'minimalism', much of my practice on computer sound production has been heavily influenced by people like Arnold Dreyblatt, Phil Niblock, Charlemagne Palestine, Henry Flynt, Pauline Oliveros, and Eliane Radique.  And while I love Autechre, John Cage, and Iannis Xenakis, I also love Fennesz and Pita.  But I would also place Raphael Toral's "Calm of Acceptance, Violence of Discovery" and Keith Fullerton Whitman's "Playthroughs" alongside any of the previously mentioned artists works.  These records undercut , for me, any intellectual interest I might have in arguing the objectification/commodification/reification/fetishization of recorded sound....they a
re quite simply beautiful, rich, and rewarding productions that I can listen to again and again.  Forgive me for name dropping, it's just that I've gotten a little tired of reading "new autechre" in the subject heading of so many emails for the last week.  Surely there are other interesting subjects old and new to occupy/unite/divide us.  Anybody else love John Fahey as an author, guitar player, composer, and human being?

mhwrpc


> Can anyone recommend any works by Phil Niblock? I have 'Touch Food',
> which is slowly becoming one of my favorite ambient releases, but I
> gather that his work can be pretty diverse.
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