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Re: [microsound] No more myspace announcements!

Hi-

I have been reading the posts for awhile, but have not been a frequent contributor. I find the arguments around the Myspace issue, to be in one sense interesting, and in another fairly elitist. While Myspace does have a inherent silliness to its interface, it does serve a useful purpose, people can listen to your music-they can then also use the friends page to hear other people's music. Why there is any objection to exposure is a bit baffling.

As one who has come to making music or sound art fairly recently there is a bit of trepidation in approaching a list like this and asking questions, because one can feel that they are not asking their questions to a certain standard, or in the correct way. From the outside this community can feel quite small and standoffish, and I think any opportunity to engage with listeners and create dialogue both here, or through Myspace should be encouraged, not maligned.

It seems like a lot of the members of this list also have Myspace profiles, what sort of feedback and response are they getting from Myspace that they do not get here, what kind of community exists out-with this list not simply centered around Myspace?

(I am not championing Myspace, I think its handy, but there are a million ways of using the web for dissemination, lastfm.com is one example.)


All the Best
Alex


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As a frequent reader (if not contributor) to this list, and following on from the last comment below, I am constantly disappointed by the amount of grumpy, petty and arrogant comments that emerge here. Not to say that there are decent people out there too (one just apologized for sending a post 3 times), but based on what I've read on this topic, the half of this list I wouldn't want to meet in real life. There again (and especially after this) you probably won't want to me me either... which leaves us with the inevitable conclusion to the myspace debate....

If you like hearing new music and making contacts via myspace - fine!
If you consider myspace to be the microsoftmcdonaldsexxonkalashnikov corporate satan that should be avoided at all costs, also fine, really!

Those of you whose work i admire via myspace have heard from me by now. Those of you whose work I admire elsewhere have received a private mail from me. It's that simple.

Now... somebody mentioned a while back a pair of good Sony headphones... Which set was it exactly? I deleted the mail by accident.

Peace and believe it or not, goodwill!

dóc | parvoart









On Jul 11, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Simon Hampson wrote:

Hi Frank,

Go ahead if you like. I personally think people are too petty about what
gets on to these *public* forums. As I said in my original email - liberal
use of the delete key is always advised.

And, for the record, your smart arse response was inappropriate given that I
proposed a solution to the problem.

All the best,

Simon.



On 11/7/06 8:45 PM, "Frank Barknecht" <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hallo,

Maybe everyone without a myspace account should start telling everyone
on microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx about it?

Ciao 


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