Subject: Re: the sound of Musique Concrete is alive in the ancient icy mountains
From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz (bathory@maltedmedia.com)
Date: Wed Jul 18 2007 - 09:39:21 EDT
At 03:17 PM 7/18/2007 +0200, Peter Castine wrote:
>Depending on how widely one wants to spread the net,
>there is nothing new under the sun. Conversely, with a
>sufficiently narrow net everything is new.
>But maybe I'm missing something significant in your
>argument?
Not speaking for Kevin, but I read it more as dead-end practices that later
or elsewhere reappear without reference to what can be unearthed as the
'original'. One of the practices eventually takes culturally, and that
(with its a more widespread influence) becomes the historical reference
point -- not what happened before or elsewhere.
Think of circuit bending: It has a cool name, and it is a practice that has
'taken'. Whatever Kevin or you or I did with electronic play two
generations ago are likely among those dead-end practices.
Dennis
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