actually taylor dupree's stuff can get rather funky. it sounds like noise
if youre looking for something...but if you just sit back and relax it
sort of has this grooviness to it. his is the only stuff in that genre
that ive found i really like so far. it just sort of grows out of nowhere
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jason Stickel wrote:
quoted 77 lines Not again...
> Not again...
>
> Now I am as open-minded as the next guy when it comes to textured,
> experimental electronic music, ambient, IDM, micro- whatever-the-hell-
> you-wanna-call-it, but there comes a point in time when enough is enough. I
> didn't have the pleasure of hearing WIRED's sound bites, but I am familiar
> enough with the "genre" to know when noise is just noise. It kind of
> reminds me of going to an art gallery and seeing a canvas painted entirely
> red...nothing else, just red paint. Ridiculous.
>
> Chalk it up to a lack of understanding on my part if you will, but I cease
> to see the novelty or artistic merit in such things.
>
> JS
>
>
> >From: "M Mercer" <vletrmx@hotmail.com>
> >To: idm@hyperreal.org
> >Subject: Re: [idm] lowercase
> >Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:09:08 -0400
> >
> >
> >>>It's bad enough the Wire making up sub-sub-genres but Wired as well.
> >>>Jeesh. Italic sound anyone?
> >
> >There is an Italic Records, actually. Decidedly not lowercase/microsound.
> >May digital disco save the day! :-)
> >
> >>>>Article in Wired on "lowercase sound".
> >>>>
> >>>>"'Lowercase sound' is the name given to a loose movement in electronic
> >>>>music that emphasizes very quiet sounds and the long, empty silences
> >>>>between them."
> >>>>
> >>>>http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,52397,00.html
> >>>>
> >>>>The only name I recognized from the article was Taylor Dupree. Hmm.
> >
> >There's inevitably a big debate every few weeks about "lowercase" vs.
> >"microsound" vs. "microscopic" etc on the microsound list, also hosted
> >through hyperreal. In fact many of those names appearing in the Wired
> >article are frequent (some infrequent) list-posters. Taylor Deupree,
> >Stephan
> >Mathieu, Steve Roden, Akira Rabelais, Bernhard Guenter..... these are all
> >fairly well known figures within the genre. All of them produce work that's
> >worth looking into if the genre/movement/whateveryouwanttocallit interests
> >you.
> >
> >The Wired article only skims the sound/genre, although I personally think
> >it's good to see a more mainstream publication (i.e., not The Wire)
> >devoting
> >some space to what is still a fairly niche and/or relatively obscure sound.
> >
> >
> >-matt
> >
> >
> >
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