maybe the reason this electronic music hits
so hard, is that every artist is here and
now.
they are not dead one thousand years ago,
and passed along by word of mouth, hand
copied and re-copied, slightly altered
through the ages.
they are here and and now, at one twenty-eight
kilobytes per second, and one twenty-five
beats per minute.
at the front of the building the spinning
motion is networked around the room faster
than thought. as the oscillator projects
a pattern onto the ceiling to the music,
the sense of sound and sight are synchronized
into one single line.
a record is pressed and it's on the streets
that day. that same day it's on servers in
every city, where it's ripped into a format
that will take it farther. the discs are
dubbed to tape, and the more it's dubbed,
the faster it spreads, exponentially up
the ranks to sixty-four, one twenty-eight,
two fifty-six, climbing with the volume dial
and the speed of its own momentum.
in every way the artists of today seem to be
sharing with each other, covering, sampling, mixing,
and re mixing, grabbing the word shakespeare
with both hands, and fucking with it
until it means nothing again, until there is room
for a new message, through a new medium.
so click here, and don't let the music stop.
copyright michael goodfellow
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