[-empyre-] aesthetics of failure, microsound literature

[Glenn Bach <gbach@csulb.edu>]

Hi, empyre.  I'm slammed at work right now, so the best I can do is pose 
a few questions . . .  So, here are two:

1.  We've already talked a little bit about technology and art, but 
perhaps we can go into the idea of failure, of pushing technology past 
its limits and using the resulting cracks, stutters, and fissures as raw 
material for new work.  I'm thinking here of Cascone's essay on the 
aesthetics of failure, among others: 
http://www.mediamatic.net/cwolk/view/8470.

How is this being used beyond simple technique?  In other words, is work 
being made that addresses the idea of failure as structure, strategy, etc.?


2.  What kinds of sound/literature connections might there be with 
regard to microsound?  For instance, I've been reading up on Morton 
Feldman a bit recently, and I've discovered multiple references to the 
work of Samuel Beckett.  Any novelists, poets, playwrights working in a 
microsound vein?


Best,

G.