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Re: [microsound] context



>Then, too, there are the "accidents," e.g., Reich's discovery of phasing in
>tape loops.

To characterize the discovery of tape phasing as 'accidental' does not
deny Reich's situation within a certain historical 'context'.  In a
different milieu Reich could have discarded such an accident as something
that sounded horrible and worthless. His discovery occured in an already
lengthy and deep tradition of avant-garde exploration amongst artists and
hence he was able to identify the results of such an 'accident' as being
potentially relevant to human culture, regardless of whether or not tape
phasing had any immediate successors or was discovered with any explicit
intent.  Perhaps a knowledge of history was not necessary to discover tape
phasing, but the discovery occured at a time when artists were searching
for such ideas and therefore a historical framework that legitimized his
discovery as one of artistic merit had been established.


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