Re: [microsound] visual artists

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to me this is a further reinforcement of the notion of much "laptop" 
music (and by extension "laptop musicians") who exist outside of 
academia, or without much formal training, being considered more as 
"folk-artists" or making a new kind of "folk-music".

the laptop and/or personal computer (and related software) having 
become, in our time, in our culture, as ubiquitous as the odd guitar or 
harmonica laying around the house, are now what could be considered 
"folk instruments".

conjures up images of "Deliverance" where dueling banjo's is played out 
by a couple of folks sitting on the porch with laptops.

in fact on a tour in the summer of 2002 we ( 3-piece laptop improv 
group) played a version of "dueling banjo's" on our laptops to 
represent that very idea. we cut up all the guiitar and banjo sections 
individually and loaded them on seperate machines and proceeded to 
mangle them into sonic suuuuu-weeee.



On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:16 PM, David Powers wrote:

> It wouldn't surprise me if people with a "proper" musical background 
> of some sort (I'm a music school dropout) are a minority,


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