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[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> i can't help but feel that the context of Road's comment has been  
> misread
> somewhat. It seems to me that he was refering to the narative of  
> the sounds
> themselves, the way they flow and morph over time, their temporal  
> fluxs of
> density and texture.
I'd say the reading was fairly accurate
Roads is imposing a cultural criteria to a form of music ('rave  
music') whose 'use-value' is substantially different than that of  
academic computer music
the narrative he feels is 'lacking' in 'rave music' is exactly the  
quality it needs to be 'successful' for that cultural milieu
if it had too much narrative it would cease to function as good dance  
music that can be stitched together to create a larger work
and whose sole purpose is to excite bodies to dance on the dance floor
the 'narrative' in dance music (the building of tension, peaking and  
coming down) is crafted by the DJ and not the producers themselves


> i'll go a step further and say that rave music isn't really about
> the music, it's about the experience.

absolutely true...the 'use-value' of 'rave music' - urgh, sounds like  
someone's grandpa speaking ;) - is vastly different from that of film  
score, classical symphony or pop music with lyrics
most music created for DJ's has an extremely short life span and is  
considered disposable - like Kleenex or paper plates
it also tends to remain fairly anonymous via fake or white labels
or cryptically marked blank CDs
or iTunes on a laptop

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> Sound artists work with longer blocks of time=
> , true, but in most of the cases they do so knowing that the  
> expectator wil=
> l only listen to a short period of his work.

I think the discussion was focussed on the creation side of things
i.e. the lengths of time certain artists deals with
not the spectator

how many people actually stay for an entire DJ set? not many


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