Re: [microsound] miles of styles of philosophes

[Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Xdugef wrote:

> Do you mind if I ask you for an example of microsound music you find
> emotional.. maybe even something from the projects page? 

http://netlabel.qunabu.com/ -> releases -> qnb001 NN - Bugs Are Welcome -> 
07 transmiter 1

For me, this is an intensely emotional experience - it leaves me short of 
breath, as though something is grabbing my gut and squeezing, not letting 
me go.

> Some songs and sounds have nostalgia that could evoke emotion in some
> people and shrill sounds might induce panic etc.

It's not nostalgia. For me, in the track I mentioned above it's something 
to do with the repetition, the ever-unresolved chord, the sense of breathing...

> But are you saying that you find alot of microsound music is missing
> emotion?

I'm saying that the kind of emotion I get from microsound music is of a 
quite different character to the kind I get from say Ani DiFranco, or the 
kind of passionate gypsy music that always forms the centrepiece in Tony 
Gatlif's films - especially the theme music to Vengo.

It's not even that microsound is more cerebral, because microsound can hit 
my gut (I feel emotions in my gut) just as hard if I'm in the right mood.

--
Damian Stewart
+64 27 305 4107

f r e y
live music with machines
http://www.frey.co.nz
http://www.myspace.com/freyed

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