<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone!<div><br></div><div>Even though I´m a silent follower of the microsound email list, and have been for some years now, the end of it would be a shame. I do not and will not have a facebook account.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers and happy new year </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:22 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:port.a.life@gmail.com" target="_blank">port.a.life@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I see facebook more as a replacement for the announce list, it has its place I guess... though its just endless scrolling of post spam already.... No real discussion happening. Just people pasting links to youtube and bandcamp to try to drive traffic.... whatever, its kool.... but to me FB is boring... let's talk about why we need to consume so much content, It seems like FB has made everyone lazy that is seeking creative content and connection. What a poor substitute it really is for creativity when I think about it. I have fallen into the trap, and daily think about killing my account, but why haven't I done it yet? I don't quite know the full answer.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Joe Lasqo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@joelasqo.com" target="_blank">joe@joelasqo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">I decline to participate in microsound on a surveillance-company platform like FB or Google+.</span></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;min-height:16px">
<span style="letter-spacing:0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">A less malign platform like <a href="https://www.phpbb.com/" target="_blank">https://www.phpbb.com</a> is perhaps worth considering, but as John DeNosky said, "if it ain't broke"… The current email format is working for me...</span></div>
<div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;min-height:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0px">Joe Lasqo</span></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;min-height:16px">
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<br></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(44,44,251)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://www.joelasqo.com/" target="_blank">http://www.joelasqo.com/</a></span></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(44,44,251)">
<span style="color:#000000">Show calendar & news: <a href="http://www.joelasqo.com/blog/" target="_blank">http://www.joelasqo.com/blog/</a></span></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial">Weekly:
Viracocha, 21st & Valencia, San Francisco, 3-6pm, Wednesdays</div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;min-height:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial">Next Up: MSP/Piano — <b>Renga-kai</b> (<span style="font-family:'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'"><b>連歌会</b></span>) w Nancy <b>Beckman</b>, Tom <b>Bickley</b>, Rachel <b>Condry</b>, Patti <b>Deuter</b>, Ben <b>Kreith</b>, Sangita <b>Moskow</b>, Dean <b>Santomieri</b>, Jennifer <b>Wilsey</b>, and dancer Nan <b>Busse</b>, <span style="color:#ff3816"><b>Sun 09 Feb</b></span>, @ SIMM Series, San Francisco, 7:30pm + Set 2: <b>Eli Wallace Group</b> (w Jon <b>Arkin</b> & Karl <b>Evangelista</b>) @ 8:30pm</div>
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<div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> "<a href="mailto:port.a.life@gmail.com" target="_blank">port.a.life@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:port.a.life@gmail.com" target="_blank">port.a.life@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> "<a href="mailto:microsound@microsound.org" target="_blank">microsound@microsound.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:microsound@microsound.org" target="_blank">microsound@microsound.org</a>> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 20, 2014 11:44 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [microsound] .microsound on Facebook<br> </font> </div><div><div>
<div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">What about driving more conversation to the microsound website via a forum platform like <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phpbb.com/" target="_blank">https://www.phpbb.com/</a> or the like. Example: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.gearslutz.com/board/" target="_blank">http://www.gearslutz.com/board/</a> this forum is alive and well and very active. Here here to making microsound stand on its own! - Paul</div>
</div><div><br><br><div>On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Damián S. <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:dsilvani@gmail.com" target="_blank">dsilvani@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">+1 to keep this mailing list<div><br></div><div>Even if it's not my case, I know of a lot of people that don't have profiles there because of privacy issues with it, and would be left out :-/</div>
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<div><br><br><div>On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Dara Shayda <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:dara1339@hotmail.com" target="_blank">dara1339@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I agree with John and the rest of appreciative posters.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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On 2014-01-20, at 6:39 PM, John Hopkins <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:jhopkins@tech-no-mad.net" target="_blank">jhopkins@tech-no-mad.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hei Kim & fellow microsounders...<br>
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>> Judging from the number of posts it seems like this mode of communication, i.e.<br>
>> the email list, has become antiquated.<br>
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> 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...<br>
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> 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...<br>
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> cheers, and the conversation has been nice while it lasted!<br>
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> Cheers,<br>
> JOhn<br>
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