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Re: [microsound] Are all electronic music related writers bad writers?



true Rónai, but what about the ideology of the
particular music in question-like why would you want
to listen to this particular piece of music? what does
it do for the listener? what kind of space does it put
you/them into? 

something i've noticed more about some types of
music-uk garage and previously jungle-is that they
seem to have as an aspect of them something about
otherness, for example,

"i think of the media/radio samples in Kode_9's 'Spit'
and also, say Photeks 'UFO', and Ed Rush's 'Bludclott
Artattack': the eirieness with which the captured
space crackles with tension, static, imperfection,
controlled voices but on the verge of something else,
an outbreak, contagion, paranoia............in both,
the possibility of contact with an alien other: a
sense of the unknown comes across vividly, as does
panic, and control. A link to the film 'Bladerunner'
comes up in my head following the ambience of a
Dillinja tune, the idea of who or what you really are
inside, and whether this can connect with who or what
someone else really is inside, the multiple layers,
the deeply held connection with anger, frustration,
pleasure, identifying us all."

from 

http://www.dogmanet.org/0024aug05_music06.htm

and yeah i do still check out the reviews in the
wire.......

--- Rónai András <ronaiandras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The number one thing I see is convoluted run-ons
> full of 88%
> > adjectives, among other things.
> 
> I'm writing about music for about 10 years now (in
> Hungarian, so you can't  
> check:)), and I think it's pretty hard to avoid
> using lots of adjectives -  
> all you can do is try to replace some of them by
> verbs.
> 
> I think the main point is that even if music is
> something that is  
> happening in time (so verbs would be adecvate for
> this), when you describe  
> music, you approach it as a whole, as an entity. And
> you have only a few  
> subjects (describable with nouns: album, song,
> track, intro, arrangement,  
> feeling, processes etc) to describe which you can do
> most easily with  
> adjectives.
> And an other thing (from a linguistic point of
> view): reviewers try to  
> avoid being "too" subjective - you can describe your
> subjective experience  
> with verbs (what is _happening_ to you listening to
> this piece of music),  
> but reviewers seem to feel that this kind of writing
> has an atmosphere of  
> more than enough subjectivity.
> 
> > Anybody care to wager a guess why it's all so
> embarrassingly poor?
> 
> I have to tell I enjoy a lot of stuff I read, about
> half of each month's  
> Wire and lots of reviews on the internet.
> 
> r.a
> 
> -- 
> http://ra.underground.hu/
> 
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