[microsound] {Definitely Spam?} Re: .microsound on Facebook
adam kalled
wshngmchne at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 20 14:42:14 EST 2014
Facebook, Google+ and the like are boring and I'm never on them. I enjoy the weird noise art in my email please..
Ak
On Monday, January 20, 2014 1:29 PM, Dara Shayda <dara1339 at hotmail.com> wrote:
I agree with John and the rest of appreciative posters.
If original music was the voice for individual expression, Facebook Google and the rest of the spy-agencies criminally funded by the mislead public money, is the death of individuation specially in USA.
I post here regularly and I know no gain will come to my person, but it is of paramount importance that INDIVIDUALS in Microsound discuss new compositional techniques as opposed to Facebook herds prodded by invisible men and women, kowtowing to super rich, pushing the herd towards fascistic retail music.
I am more than willing to pay a monthly fee for Microsound to post my work here and enjoy the companionship of many brilliant minds and refined souls here.
The loss of communities like Microsound to me is clear indication of rise of fascism in most unlikely societies e.g. USA. Therefore this is beyond a discussion group for original music, this is for the sake of our individuality.
The
On 2014-01-20, at 6:39 PM, John Hopkins <jhopkins at tech-no-mad.net> wrote:
> Hei Kim & fellow microsounders...
>
>> Judging from the number of posts it seems like this mode of communication, i.e.
>> the email list, has become antiquated.
>
> well, it is definitely a reality that FaceBook has sucked the oxygen from a vast majority of public conversations. I think it is a pity. As an early adopter for many years (and as a 'new media' educator and long-time network performance artist), I checked out FB between 2006-11 and then closed my account for a variety of reasons -- including their data-harvesting policies and the insistence that one do everything 'their way'. Of course, one can argue that the NSA is collecting everything anyway, so who cares about Zuckerberg doing the same thing...
>
> oh well, I guess if the mailing list goes away, then I for one, perhaps the only one, will no longer have a microsonic voice :-\ Everything has a life-time, and dinosaurs do die...
>
> cheers, and the conversation has been nice while it lasted!
>
> Cheers,
> JOhn
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