[microsound] Re: Theoretical Resources for Microsounders

[Phil Thomson <hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxx>]

The great thing about a wiki is that anyone (on this list) can edit
it. If you'd like to change the title of the category and/or the
layout of the page to de-emphasize the (now-defunct?) call for texts
on noise (which was there before I started my list of texts; I had
nothing to do with it), please feel free. Adding de Certeau's classic
or Metz's work (or Chion's or anyone else) would be great, and it'd be
fab to write a little blurb on how they relate to microsound. If we
get a real list of texts/authors going, maybe someone could start to
organize them into categories.

I was more looking to act as a catalyst than as someone who would
dictate what exactly the page would be. I'm hoping other people will
pick up the slack if there's any interest. I didn't think there'd be
much interest, but I wanted to get it going anyway. If others want to
join in, I'm thrilled! :-)

~pt


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> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:58:04 -0700
> To: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: kubick <sesenta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: re: Theoretical Resources for Microsounders
> Message-Id: <0C4D4208-E1BE-4FF2-A140-1974B572D049@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> this interests me greatly, thanks for getting this started,
> and several books come to mind as deserving a read
> not the least being, "the practice of everyday life" by michel de
> certeau.....
>
> or at least that seems appropriate.
>
> but on the other hand, i find myself unsure of the category 'theoretical
> books for microsounders';
>
> not least because of the primacy of 'noise' on that wiki page.
> i haven't really been paying attention to the list too much lately,
> perhaps i've missed out on a developing conversation, but --
> i don't see microsound as being synonymous w/ noise at all.
> or, noises CAN be microsounds, but conflating the two concepts
> seems to erode the meaning of microsound........
>
> also, about these books.
> are theoretical writings directed towards sound (eg christian metz)
> desired on that list?
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I added a provisional thing to the "Texts" portion of the microsound
> > wiki with a list of some authors whose theoretical work might be
> > useful for theoretically-inclined microsounders:
> >
> > http://www.interdisciplina.org/microsound-wiki/index.php/Texts

--
"If the other could be possessed, seized, and known, it would not be
the other. To possess, to know, to grasp are all synonyms of power. To
see and to know, to have and to will, unfold only within the
oppressive and luminous identity of the same."

~ Emmanuel Levinas


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