Yeah, I gotta concur, unless you're making music using
biological instruments you've grown in a lab, technology in music is
pretty commonplace. Even Metallica mixes down on a Macintosh.
m@2zo
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"Life is Suffering. Art imitates Life. Imitation is the highest form of
Flattery. Flattery will get you Nowhere. Therefore: Art is Suffering on
the road the Nowhere."
-- Matt Tuozzo
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Zozzy wrote:
quoted 44 lines On 22 May 2001 03:42:42 -0000, you wrote:
> On 22 May 2001 03:42:42 -0000, you wrote:
>
> >"?in the electric age there is no longer any sense in talking about the artist?s
> >being ahead of his time. Our technology, also, is ahead of its time, if we reckon
> >by our ability to recognize it for what it is? Just as higher education is no
> >longer a frill or luxury but a stark need of production and operational design in
> >the electric age, so the artist is indispensable in the shaping and analysis and
> >understanding of the life of forms, and structures created by electric technology."
>
>
> Here's a quote from Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) that seemed relevant (but my mind is
> maxed out at the moment so who knows? ;)
> Peace
> Zoz
>
>
> "I think that when people several centuries in the future look back at the 20th
> century, they'll probably see the signs of a world civilisation being consumed
> by the communication technologies it used.
> To me, music is a mirror that we hold up to see how cultural structures are
> formed. Race, social heirachy, class, national origin: the 20th century saw a
> questioning of these issues on a global level, and in a sense, electronic music
> was the soundtrack to that intense investigation into the human situation.
>
> Almost all traditional notions of space, time, and physicality have been
> reconfigured in ways that we are just beginning to understand. I think that
> electronic music has helped us understand the process we've lived through.
> Think about everything from the tones you hear coming through the telephone to
> the frequencies underlying cellular communications to the algorithms used to
> route in the information holding it all together - most of this stuff has been
> explored by the avant-guarde.
> Industry & science develop the materials, but artists & composers are called
> upon to dream of different ways of using them."
>
>
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