Re: [-empyre-] quickies for the panelists

[john hudak <jhudak@pobox.com>]

on 8/8/03 12:16 PM, Stasisfield.com at john@stasisfield.com wrote:

> 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!

i always think of the old version of the movie "rollerball," where a group
of people are dancing in a future time and they are sort of grooving in a
minimal way to a really minimal sound...

i suppose the only new directions sound can take are in the
biological/organic area...implants that trigger sensations with certain
frequencies...the sound from small amoeba's electrical charges...the sound
of grass growing...etc...

best future,
john