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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Ben,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank for your comment and your careful reading.
And I have to admit, you are right that lower-case is not a subgenre of
Microsound. But in my opinion, there are big overlaps. </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>"Roden notes, 'lowercase is about a work that sits quietly
awaiting discovery, as opposed to loudly calling attention to itself.' In other
words, 'lowercase' music isn't so much about particular sounds or particular
musical styles as it is about attitude" (from <A
href="http://www.hauntedink.com/25/lowercasesound.html">http://www.hauntedink.com/25/lowercasesound.html</A>).
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And since Microsound is a technique or a technical
focus, and lower-case mainly seems to referr to an atmosphere /
attitude, there is a multitude of lower-case microsound. So it's true that
one can't be classified under the other, but there is an interpenetration
that is really fascinating to me. So I wanted to include the term in the
call. Thanks for the clarification.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Daniel.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=benmowen@gmail.com href="mailto:benmowen@gmail.com">ben owen</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=microsound-announce@microsound.nexthop.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 13, 2009 5:57 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [microsound-announce] Call
for microsound works</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>hi David,
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<DIV>On Jul 12, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Daniel Neumann wrote:</DIV><BR
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px 'Helvetica Neue'; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; 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>
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<DIV>really?</DIV>
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<DIV>to quote the two mailing list pages where discussions around these terms
flourished --></DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>regards, </DIV>
<DIV>ben </DIV>
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