Re: [microsound] politics of digital audio reflux

["\\js" <js0000@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi

On 10/2/06, jon <seedling@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> - what is the use value vs exchange value of marxist theories on digital
> audio?

not exactly sure what you mean. i'm guessing 'use value' is practical
knowledge about generating or capturing audio with digital technology.
similarly, 'exchange value' is a currency of some sort- something that
can be exchanged for something else- more abstract.

if i have misunderstood, the rest of my note will be superfluous
[which may already be the case].

i don't know that there is a firm line between these two, but the
abstract and contrete [practical] are two boxes used often in art, and
[more generally] in the experience of being alive [or at least *my*
experience of being alive].

so i don't think digital audio is any different than food shopping in
this case. what is the [exchange] value of being a vegetarian? what is
the [use] value of buying vegetables?

there is a relationship- right?

political analyses of digital audio may help an artist produce work.
conversely, they may paralize another artist with excessive
intellectualism. if you are making art representative of a culture
[which we all are in one way or another for one culture or another],
understanding that culture will help your art.

and how do you understand that culture?
- watch cnn?
- read about other cultures?
- study different perspectives? [from different times and places]
- personal experience?

just because the mass media in the us only offers one kind of
framework for understanding the world doesn't mean that other
frameworks are invalid.

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\js  [ http://or8.net/~johns/ ]

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