on 7/17/02 1:46 PM, Philip Sherburne at psherburne@jeevessolutions.com
scrawled:
quoted 7 lines you figured out our secret! yes, simon reynolds has set up the Foundation> you figured out our secret! yes, simon reynolds has set up the Foundation
> for New Musical Nomenclature and Neologistic Overkill, with generous funding
> from dave eggers and david foster wallace. every time we invent a term and
> it goes to press, we get $25. we also get royalties on recurring usage. i've
> already bought myself a new dictionary with the proceeds from "microhouse"
> and i'm hard at work on R&D... ;)
>
I knew I was on to something! That's why Kodwu Eshun reads like a
post-structuralist. I should have been more concise in the first message..
that wasn't so much me grumbling about the term, it was the way that new
terminology is immediately adapted by all and used everywhere, sometimes I
think this elevates the newly named style and puts it on a pedastel while
neglecting to connect it to it's past. Obviously this is bigger than
micro-______ and more of a language/consumer culture thing. I guess at the
end of the day, music that can't inspire new vocabulary isn't worth
listening to.. and as for the spread of new lexicon, what did Mr. Burroughs
say about language being a virus?
quoted 3 lines just being flippant, of course. the question of genre and neologism is of> just being flippant, of course. the question of genre and neologism is of
> course a sticky one (um, no pun intended), but in the case of
> "microsampling," it's much easier -- that's akufen's own term.
He came up with it? Wow.. he is the man of the moment. I've already read
that phrase being dropped in no less than 3 interviews/articles in the past
month.
Hopefully I clarified where I was coming from.
~g
np.. Phillip Glass - songs of liquid days
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