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From:
Philip Sherburne
To:
'genuine gold-tone ranking monkey' , Philip Sherburne
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Date:
Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:03:50 -0700
Subject:
[idm] RE: noto
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quoted 2 lines the alva noto sounds interesting. better than his rather stultifying>the alva noto sounds interesting. better than his rather stultifying >volume of the 20:2000 series?
honestly, i don't remember his disc for 20' to 2000, but the alva noto is really nice - by far his most "musical" work so far.
quoted 2 lines Even cooler - Nicolai is currently at work on a *string quartet*,>>Even cooler - Nicolai is currently at work on a *string quartet*, >>reportedly in the vein of Reich... very exciting.
quoted 1 line more like terrifying. i thought that electronic musicians had gotten over>>more like terrifying. i thought that electronic musicians had gotten over
quoted 3 lines the "oh, well, electronic music is great fun but now i'm older and it's>>the "oh, well, electronic music is great fun but now i'm older and it's >time >>to start writing _serious_, _classical_ music" thing in the 60s. what
with
quoted 2 lines stockhausen being something of a joke after he decided to forsake>>stockhausen being something of a joke after he decided to forsake >>electronics in favor of "composition."
i didn't take it that way... remember, nicolai's got his hands in plenty of media (installations, visual art) so i see his turn toward acoustic instruments as representing yet another extension of his work -- not a rejection of electronics or the onset of old-age-conservatism. (of course, i guess we'll see when the work is released...) one interesting point that nicolai made was that with so many people working in the clicks'n'cuts vein (and as he puts it, "releasing so many cds that all sound the same), where attention to process is increasingly eclipsing the success of the output, a turn to acoustic instruments is a way of at least temporarily side-stepping that particular problem. but i've always been a sucker for string quartets, so maybe i'm just an apologist...! :) p --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org