[microsound] The electronic musician's Dark Age: Concept & Ideology

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Instrumental electronic music (most of it is), risks to fall in the
universe of objectual existence. Like a lamp or a car. It may convey a
function, thats true, but our need of trascendence as artists isn't
fulfilled by producing something that simply functions. Is there really a
way to put direct concepts and ideology in instrumental music, without the
aid of voice samples, accompanying graphics or press coverage? I'm talking
about explicit concepts, not just indirect associative ideas (like, for
example, sampling a sex pistols riff)

Another interesting aspect to point out:
When we listen to music made by people like Bach, Monolake, or Reich, we
are listening to them authors "talking" to us in the way we would like to
hear them talk. We picture the ideological content of instrumental music
always from the information we have about the author's context and
thinking frame. An interesting phenomena is that in which, for example, we
like a certain artist for his music exclusively, and when one day we read
an interview that reveals aspects we dont like that much about him, we
start to dislike his music as well.

Hernan

www.cooptrol.com


> On 10/3/06, Xdugef <info@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Fishing Vest? Is this supposed to be some sort of statement about Jesus??
>
> I thought it was kind of Canadian, myself...
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