Re: [microsound] striated and smooth (was: music is the ultimate incorruptible)

[Stephen Hastings-King <roachboy@xxxxxxxxx>]

rinus:

no worries.
thanks for clarifying.
i think i allowed things to get tangled up.
so pushing reset.

by way of introducing myself, there is this piece:


http://white-flag.org/hzl/

the second link down (with jack wright and hzl)
i have been doing electroacoustic work for a while now--very interested in
interacting with/thinking with about electronics, as performance comrades
and as ways to add density to thinking about improvisational practices
conceptually.

jeff: on "reductionist" modes--i found myself doing some work with folk who
are involved with  this over the past year or so--it is an interesting
constraint---i like the silences of it and the emphasis this puts on
placement, and the ways in which placement can be shifted toward emphasis on
sound as sound, not as element of a series.  also that a very long series,
deployed across adequate emptiness, can both be and not be a series.  i like
that you can listen to a kind of metaphysical problem (the nature of a
series) being staged because it generates very interesting problems of
selection/timbre as you are doing the performance.  also interesting in what
it eliminates as options--for me as pianist, this includes the whoel range
of strange sonic phenomena resulting from harmonics used as a kind of
saturation device (dunno if that is clear or not, but this is a compressed
paragraph and i gotta go in a couple minutes).
i am less convinced that the cluster of approaches lumped together under the
unfortunate rubrc of reductionist are interesting as a total approach---i
have worked with folk who see it in that way.  for me, it is a constraint.

malfatti (i'll check back through the thread later to see if i have the name
right) i do not know but am curous and so will explore.  the good thing
about a list like this--always finding new stuff to listen to.  keeps the
head expanding, like lene lovich said once.

stephen