A quieter aesthetic is *emerging*? what the hell is that?
That article is more about how new electronica artists use Macs (surprise
surprise, tell us something we don't know) than the actual 'sub-genre' of
lowercase sound - either the author didn't do the foot work, or didn't feel
like the last half of the 20th century has anything to do with electronica -
more than likely the assignment was to do a 'cutting edge piece on how the
mac is used in new music' - just look at the collection of links they have
surrounding the article.
Of course, nevermind that experimental musicians like John Cage, Pauline
Oliveros (who has a retrospective gala in SF this weekend), Morton Feldman,
John Zorn, Alvin Lucier, Dexter Gordon, David Tudor, K. Stockhausen, Ryoji
Ikeda, literally TONS of Chicago folks like Amnon Wolman, Fred L. Holmes,
Michael Zerang, Town & Country, hell even O'Rourke if he would admit it... i
won't go on for fear that the mailhost for hyperreal might choke on so large
an email. lowercase sound has been going on for over half a century, is a
very vibrant form of music, and it is most certainly not a phenomenon of an
outgrowth from electronic dance music. They probably only left out Achim
Wollscheid because he doesn't use a Mac.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't to disparage the folks the article does touch
on, they all do fantastic work (though where is Kit Clayton? Sutekh? Diego
Cortez? Stilluppsteypa, FENNESZ for crying out loud... someone joked about
Kid606, but some of what he's done for Mille Plateaux is firmly
lowercase-influenced); that article is just horribly shallow and uninformed,
I guess that's what we can expect from Wired.
m
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