[microsound] 1 bit symphony

[David Powers]

Why does everything have to be meta? For some time now, it has seemed
that artists and musicians are more interested in talking about the
concepts behind their work than actually working.

If you were really immersed in your work, there is no need for
language to explain your thought. The work itself says all that needs
to be said; if you could put it into ordinary words, what would be the
point of creating the artwork?

By the way, Henri LeFebvre already diagnosed the problem with
metalanguage swallowing language and everything being discussed at one
remove in the late sixties. I think now we can see how spot on he was.

For him it is a byproduct of bureaucracy... which I think is exactly
right. The institutional art world is really just a vast bureaucratic
labyrinth (including but not limited to academia).

I think I will generate all my artistic statements via a random pomo
jargon engine software.

~D

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:20 AM, john saylor <js0000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hey
>
> don't know how many are aware of this:
> http://www.1bitsymphony.com/
>
> well, i bit [ouch!] and got it. there are some interesting things
> about the music, but to be quite frank, i prefer most of the chiptune
> players to perich. when listening to it, i often felt that while his
> understanding of how machines make music was not as deep as it could
> be. i guess i could simplify it by saying i felt there was more
> symphony than there was 1 bit.
>
> also, while the code for generating the music [i think] was included
> on the card there was precious little about meta issues [what the
> software was like, how the programming was done, what were his
> aesthetic aims with this music, and so on]. and from an engineering
> standpoint, it seems like it was not designed to last very long or
> take much abuse. people spill and drop things [and their kids tear
> them apart ...] all the time. i don't think this package can take much
> of that. there is something about a cd release that is kept by using
> the same packaging, i get that; but as a bit of technology, it kinda
> fails in my book.
>
> don't misunderstand, i think it's an interesting project, and i put
> out my currency to but it. so that says something in and of itself.
>
> other opinions, comments?
>
> --
> \js : "verbing weirds language." -calvin  [http://or8.net/~johns/]
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