Re: [microsound] i know this has been said before but....

[Scott Carver <fscthaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 27, 2006, at 10:20 AM, aleks vasic wrote:

> Why do many people focus soley on the process with which any type  
> of electronic music is made?  The methodology?  What about the  
> final result?  How many guitars are sold that function in basically  
> the same way?  How  many traditional instrument period?  Its what  
> you do with them, what you create that should garner ones attention.

I don't think any of the comments made were on the process at all,  
per se, they were comments on the experiential / perceptual qualities  
of the piece. It's not that the piece was made with a particular  
process, so much as the fact that the process is immediately apparent  
in 30 seconds of listening. Exposed, visible process is not  
inherently bad, but I don't personally find the process or the  
materials in question to be particularly poetic or engaging. Why  
Ennio Morricone? Why backwards? Why leave the beginning undistorted?  
In short, when you can /hear/ process, that process better be  
interested/powerful/shocking/etc, otherwise why is it there?

(I don't want to put words in people's mouths: maybe the prior  
comments about the piece /were/ simply criticisms of the process.)

- Scott Carver


> aLEKs
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> On Jan 27, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Jason Hollis wrote:
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> > Agreed. Not impressed.
> > - make floaty monotonous 10+ min guitar song
> > - run backward
> > - distort
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> > Easy peasy.
> > Thanks for sharing though. =)
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> > !J!
> > http://www.endif.org
> > http://www.thirdwavecollective.com
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> > > On Jan 27, 2006, at 8:55 AM, Edward George wrote:
> > > > try http://www.bleep.com/current_item.php?selection=MEGO029_DM
> > > Thanks...interesting 30 seconds of backwards sound.
> > > One of the reviewers here wasn't too impressed:
> > > http://tinyurl.com/9fkxf
> > > anyway, thanks for the link.
> > > R~
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