Re: [-empyre-] quickies for the panelists

["Stasisfield.com" <john@stasisfield.com>]

john hudak wrote:

> I think "microsound" is just really a classification of sounds that have
> always been around in some form or another, but have just recently gained a
> popularity with labeling.  The early Musique Concrete creators were doing
> the dj-ing stuff years ago without mass popularity.  I always wonder what
> the next "real" new music will be.

I definitely agree that the sounds inherent to microsound have been 
around for a long time...I can think of several specific pieces going 
back at least a generation that are at least somewhat 
"micorsoundish"... Eliane Radigue's works in the late '70s, many of 
Stockhausen's works in the late '50s and '60s...there are also many 
similar sounds in so-called "world music" which stretch back much 
further.

The concept of the next "real" music is an interesting problem...I 
wonder if there can truly be a "new" music anymore. I'm not 
necessarily trying to be cynical, but it seems to me that musical 
movements are actually a way of gathering specific sound types and 
contextualizing them within a certain culture, sub-culture, or 
sub.sub-culture, etc. It seems to me the last truly "new" sounds were 
created during the advent of the synthesizer -- they had never been 
heard before because they couldn't possibly have been heard before.

I would think there would have to be a substantial leap (both upwards 
and sideways) in music technology and practice to create a truly 
"new" music...but I could also be completely wrong!


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john kannenberg

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