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

[rinus van alebeek <rinusfiles@xxxxxxxxx>]

i dont know if you mean this, rinus, but i keep getting the sense that you
> question the basic competences of folk who engage in improvisational
> practices.



Oh no please Stephen, I don't question any one
I was just trying to understand the point of it all.

I got into this,
because I still don't know how to describe the thing i do,
Jeff gave an adequate description,
so far I'm helped


>
> i dont know what you are talking about with the victorian room
> analogy---it
> seems projection on your part:  there is nothing about improvisation as a
> general approach that entails a more or less sealed-off relation to sound,
> nothing in it that entails any particular old-school exclusions as to
> source, quality, environment, openness....


I meant the words I read on this thread, not the music that is
discussed ...and I do like those movies, and the colors of'm..




unless there is something in what you say of that tedious opposition held to
> by some folk i have run into doing electronic music that using acoustic
> instruments is in itself reactionary--but that seems to me ridiculous, the
> kind of thing kids starting out think, the ones who need to legitimate
> themselves by opposing wholesale what they imagine themselves to be
> reacting
> against.  like the surrealists in relation to catholicism---internally
> their
> revolt was total--from the outside, it is exactly that assumption of total
> revolt that blinded them to the possibilty that much of their
> output----particularly that caught up directly in the "total
> revolt"----was
> reducable---and worse reduced itself--- to the actions of self-conscously
> naughty catholic boys.



hu wow...now you're running of too far..I'm not into politics nor
competition.
I think 'reactionary' is a strange word to use in a discours, unless you
like the sound of it,
but I start to have the impression that my knowledge of your language,
is too little, so excuse me for dropping in.
I don't want to upset nor annoy anyone

let's state it like this,
my improvisation had some strange resonances with the other instrumentalists
here.

and luckily
no one has problems with improvisations,
so I assume you forgive me for presenting you Disraeli.

greetings from Madrid,

rinus

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