I agree. I started reading dhalgren last summer and was scared by the
gay sex scenes. i'm not used seeing that in sci-fi. there's some
engulfing atmosphere in this book, however, and I'm going to read it
when i'm done with other readings.
besides these, a lot of sci-fi novels that i read in my early teens,
like the day of the trifids, artur clark, asimov, etc. probably pushed
me towards strange electronica later on. me and several other friends in
a local sci-fi fan club are crazy fans of electronic music also. they
are psy-trance lovers (even though tried to convert them), while i'm
digging deeper in synthetic music.
btw, gibson's neuromancer audiobook is backed up by pretty old-school
instrumental rock. i think u2 contributed a track, if i don't mistake it
with something else. it could be much different. there's obviously some
discrepancy in time between music and text futurists.
anyone trying to call their music cyberpunk? this sounds pretty logical,
doesn't it? anyone calling their writing idm? or braindance litetarure :)))
this is part of what i think about the connection/parallels between
sci-fi and electronica:
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even though eletronic musicians listen to their work in the headphones
in their (home-) studios, they do not record the accoustic sounds
(unless they mix live samples with synthetic sounds, which makes things
a little more complicated). they construct electric signals, either
analog or digital, which travel through complicated networks of cables
and plates, being the subject of processing, refining (or distortion)
and arranging. at the end, the result is recorded again as a sequence of
potential electric/magnetic signals. the whole thing never really left
the realm of wires. now, as i'm listening to a plop compilation, most of
the sounds receive accoustic life from the speakers for the first time.
before that, they were just electricity or bits of information. other
speakers played the same bits of information much earlier, but these
don't have anything to do with my copies of the music files.
in the same way, science-fiction reality happens in our minds for the
first time when we read it. this reality is not one that the writers saw
in the real world. it is a complitely synthetically fabricated world
which the writers weave according to their own imagination and then
record into paper and harddisks in order our brains to give life to it
later.
that's how electronic music and science-fiction are similar in
"artificiality" and that's probably one of the reasons why so many
people enjoy these genres.
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well, that's for now,
dobri
"The best way to predict the future is to go (mentally) in the direction
in which our fears grow."
"What some people perceive as the End of the World, for History is just
the sign that Future is coming."
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>>My own recommendations:
>>Jorge Luis Borges - anything, but particularly the collection called
>>Labyrinths, not sci-fi, but what the heck, deals with the infinite
>>Thomas Pynchon - has to be Gravity's Rainbow really.
>>Samuel R. Delaney - dhalgren, don't know where to start, just read it.
>>Jeff Noon - the earlier ones, particularly Vurt and Pollen.
>>Donald Barthelme - again not really sci-fi, but freaky enough to include.
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>Now ~that~ is a worthwhile reading list.
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>seek
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