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
quoted 50 lines From: "M Mercer" <vletrmx@hotmail.com>
>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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