<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hi David, <div><br><div><div>On Jul 12, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Daniel Neumann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Microsound is a term that encompasses explorations of sound on a time scale "shorter than musical notes". It includes subgenres such as Glitch music, granular synthesis, Lowercase sound, etc.</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>really?</div><div><br></div><div>to quote the two mailing list pages where discussions around these terms flourished --></div><div><br></div><div>lower-case sound list - initiated march 1999 - states::: </div><div>lowercase-sound is a unmoderated discussion & announcement list concerning a disparate group of musics, sound art & listening experiences that emphasize or include some or all of the characteristics of low volume, silence, soundscape/environmental/field recordings, indeterminacy, psycho/acoustic treatments of space, environment & context & possible relationships of this work to art in other media ie painting, drawing & film & poetry. Some examples include the music of Morton Feldman, AMM, John Cage, Artists on the Trente Oiseaux label (eg bernhard gunter, Francisco Lopez, Steve Roden), Field recordings of Chris Watson & visual work by Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman , Stan Brakhage & Andre Tarkovsky. Discussion of particular works, personal listening experiences, recordings, technique, theory, reviews & announcement of related performances, conferences, festivals & recording releases are encouraged.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>microsound mailing list - initiated october 1999 - states::: </div><div>.microsound is an unmediated mailing list oriented toward discussion of the styles of digital and post-digital music promulgated by the proliferation and widespread adoption of digital signal processing (dsp) tools.</div><div>.microsound is not a "genre" mailing list, since this proliferation has occurred largely without regard for stylistic boundary. instead, .microsound presents itself as a forum for the discussion and exploration of a more general "digital aesthetic" manifesting across a wide variety of styles and disciplines -- from academic computer music to post-industrial noise to experimental ambient and post-techno.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>to group lower-case musics as a sub-genre of "microsound" (in your words a "technical term and musical genre") is rather dangerous from a historical/curatorial point of view.. don't you think? </div><div><br></div><div>regards, </div><div>ben </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>