[microsound] I want myspace MTV

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK...I too have grown a little weary with all the 'me-too'  
announcements of myspace addys...I'd rather debate the phenomenon of  
myspace, which I would find personally interesting, but just sticking  
your nose into the list to announce your myspace account addy without  
having said peep for months is kinda contradictory to the noble  
stance of 'myspace is about community!' innit?
  - and please note the amount of microsound projects that have  
materialized by someone other than myself? I feel this is a stronger  
indication of (or lack thereof) 'community' than having a myspace  
account.

yes, everyone and their grandmother now has a myspace account and no  
doubt having one makes you unique in the electronic music world --  
just as it does for the other 10 million bedroom artists with a shiny  
myspace plastered with their mp3's...

the allure to be a part of the myspace community is great but  
ultimately most of the mp3's on myspace are not any better than the  
stuff I used to hear on mp3.com -- remember that? I bet most of you  
don't...pretty much same crap, different package...

the noise to signal on myspace is also deafening...but that being  
said I feel that a page should be created somewhere with all the  
microsound members myspace accounts listed...maybe a script that  
would take an email, parse the myspace addy and add it as a link to a  
page somewhere?

final: most of us have had enough of the one liner updates containing  
the myspace account info...yes, you're cool for having a myspace  
account - now let's talk about something more interesting? suggestions:

- what is the cultural/aesthetic intersection of 'places' like  
myspace with 'spaces' like microsound?
- and is the 'enabling' power of social networks real or is it simply  
another sort of commodity sold to us through viral advertising?

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