[microsound] 'that's edutainment'

CraqueMat craque at craque.net
Tue Jan 20 15:33:02 EST 2009


Yes, this paragraph especially. I definitely relate to the "theoretical 
shorthand" and like how you compare it to relative experience from a 
wide range of participants.

Jason Wehmhoener wrote:
> Theory and 'isms, as well as less complex forms of communication, can 
> often be a form of shared shorthand. This can make communication between 
> a small number of people more efficient in some settings, but when you 
> start looking at communicating with a networked world where individual 
> frames of reference can have wide variance, it is often helpful to 
> simplify and de-jargonize our language, and focus on descriptive terms 
> that are easy to relate to because they directly reference the 
> experience of our senses.
> 
> Am I making any sense?
> 
> -Jason
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:07 PM, CraqueMat <craque at craque.net 
> <mailto:craque at craque.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Is there a way to talk about music without using ism's?
> 
>     I'm not being an ass, this is genuine curiosity.
> 
>     Sometimes I'm bothered by the way I can't be a part of a conversation
>     just because I haven't had time to read a book (and I read a lot).
> 
>     Damian Stewart wrote:
>      > Stephen Hastings-King wrote:
>      >
>      >> 2. these days, everyone's a situationist.
>      >
>      > could you explain this a little? i only came across the
>     situationists quite
>      > recently...
>      >
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