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Hey All What can you tell me about Kim Cascone? I keep seeing her name with people that I like. Thanks Matt Loathing ServUs Industry ===== http://www.servusindustry.com http://www.mp3.com/loathing __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

At 05:02 PM 3/12/01, matt loathing wrote:

quoted 2 lines What can you tell me about Kim Cascone?

>What can you tell me about Kim Cascone? >I keep seeing her name with people that I like.

Kim's not a her, he's a him. He's arguably best known as being the founder of Silent Records, a label that was responsible for bringing lots of great ambient/experimental music to North America, before his sale of the label and the subsequent mismanagement sent it down the crapper. While I'm not that familiar with his recent work, I understand that it's in the "microsound" area of things. Greg --- Greg Clow - greg@stainedproductions.com - greg@feedbackmonitor.com concert & event promotions - http://www.stainedproductions.com electronic music radio/reviews/interviews - http://www.feedbackmonitor.com 158 Close Ave. 2nd Floor - Toronto, Ontario M6K 2V5 - Canada --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Correct, Kim Cascone founded Silent Records. He was responsible for the ambient project PGR which remains one of my favorite ambient acts. I believe he stopped recording under PGR around 95-96 though. Silent Records I think has since disappeared, and he runs the Anechoic Media label/whatever. He is also the list administrator for the microsound list. I've only heard select pieces from his newer work but it is usually severely minimal DSP type stuff. The remix/reworking disc "Blue Cubism: Transcoded Audio Structures" on Digital Narcis is pretty good, with makeovers of Cascone tracks by Pita, V/VM, *0, Terre Thaemlitz, Dumb Type, and several others. He also has a track featured on the new New Forms compilation on Raster. I would recommend Cascone's work to anyone interested in the more experimental/glitchy side of microsound. (as if they weren't synonymous ;-) matt

quoted 22 lines From: Greg Clow <greg@stainedproductions.com>

>From: Greg Clow <greg@stainedproductions.com> >To: idm@hyperreal.org >Subject: Re: [idm] Kim Cascone >Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:07:00 -0500 > >At 05:02 PM 3/12/01, matt loathing wrote: > >>What can you tell me about Kim Cascone? >>I keep seeing her name with people that I like. > >Kim's not a her, he's a him. > >He's arguably best known as being the founder of Silent Records, a label >that was responsible for bringing lots of great ambient/experimental music >to North America, before his sale of the label and the subsequent >mismanagement sent it down the crapper. > >While I'm not that familiar with his recent work, I understand that it's in >the "microsound" area of things. > > >Greg

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quoted 1 line While I'm not that familiar with his recent work, I understand that it's

> While I'm not that familiar with his recent work, I understand that it's

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quoted 3 lines the "microsound" area of things.

> the "microsound" area of things. > >

Wel maybe a stupid question, but i'm not familiar with the term microsound. Can you guys explain (in a few words...) ? Is it something as the newwer form of ambient or so ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 3 lines Wel maybe a stupid question, but i'm not familiar with the term microsound.

> Wel maybe a stupid question, but i'm not familiar with the term microsound. > Can you guys explain (in a few words...) ? > Is it something as the newwer form of ambient or so ?

A good place to start is: http://www.microsound.org Quoted from the list manifesto: ".microsound is an unmediated mailing list oriented toward discussion of the styles of digital and post-digital music promulgated by the proliferation and widespread adoption of digital signal processing (dsp) tools. .microsound is not a "genre" mailing list, since this proliferation has occurred largely without regard for stylistic boundary. instead, .microsound presents itself as a forum for the discussion and exploration of a more general "digital aesthetic" manifesting across a wide variety of styles and disciplines -- from academic computer music to post-industrial noise to experimental ambient and post-techno." Cheers, Bill -- http://www.chromedecay.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org