Re: [microsound] Micro-beat vs. Micro-arhythmic, Aphex vs. Cage

[Kassen <kassen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi list, I recently went to the electronic music festival in Detroit
> (anybody else go???) and, though overall the stuff I heard was probably
> too "techno" to be discussed here, I did go to the Detroit Underground
> party, which had the following line up: Apparat, Richard Devine, Otto
> Von Schirach, Jimmy Edgar, Kero etc.

I was there, playing in the tent (that was called "musicological",
"generator" or "new music", depending on who you asked) as half of Bangkok
Impact. I had a great time and general the mood was excelent but I felt that
overall there was a very strong "anti-cerebral" additude over the whole
festifal and a worship of the longer running acts that at times bordered on
the fashistic in my experience.

I got in a debate with some of my company as I felt that it´s all good and
well to stress how long a act like Model500 has been making music but that I
expected a artist to grow stylistically and perhaps also technologically in
such a time and that what was presented didn´t realy show that experience to
me.

To get from my personal experience to a broader, more topical, perspective;
to me many of the acts that played used the digital realm mainly for it´s
strength in flawless reproduction and failed to embrace the more dynamic
sides of digital systems. To me that´s a missed oportunity since this is the
same crowd that often praises analogue for being more alive and "a little
different every time". I believe that it´s quite possible to embrase the
more dynamic sides of digital audio systems even within a aesthetic centered
on "sounding analogue" but I heard preciously little of that.

I missed the party you mention though.

Kas.



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