[microsound] OT: compliment for michael trommer

[Tobias Reber]

you, sir, share some very interesting views in that  
www.audiovoltaics.cc interview.

tobias


Am 08.09.2010 um 00:45 schrieb michael trommer:

> Well said.
>
> ...and there are actually a few random artist statement generators  
> online,
> like this one for example:
>
> http://www.playdamage.org/market-o-matic/
>
>
> On 10-09-07 5:41 PM, "David Powers" <cyborgk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>>
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