[microsound-announce] Call for microsound works

[ben owen]

hi David,

On Jul 12, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Daniel Neumann wrote:

> Microsound is a term that encompasses explorations of sound on a  
> time scale "shorter than musical notes". It includes subgenres such  
> as Glitch music, granular synthesis, Lowercase sound, etc.



really?

to quote the two mailing list pages where discussions around these  
terms flourished -->

lower-case sound list - initiated march 1999 - states:::
lowercase-sound is a unmoderated discussion & announcement list  
concerning a disparate group of musics, sound art & listening  
experiences that emphasize or include some or all of the  
characteristics of low volume, silence, soundscape/environmental/field  
recordings, indeterminacy, psycho/acoustic treatments of space,  
environment & context & possible relationships of this work to art in  
other media ie painting, drawing & film & poetry. Some examples  
include the music of Morton Feldman, AMM, John Cage, Artists on the  
Trente Oiseaux label (eg bernhard gunter, Francisco Lopez, Steve  
Roden), Field recordings of Chris Watson & visual work by Agnes  
Martin, Robert Ryman , Stan Brakhage & Andre Tarkovsky. Discussion of  
particular works, personal listening experiences, recordings,  
technique, theory, reviews & announcement of related performances,  
conferences, festivals & recording releases are encouraged.


microsound mailing list - initiated october 1999 - states:::
.microsound is an unmediated mailing list oriented toward discussion  
of the styles of digital and post-digital music promulgated by the  
proliferation and widespread adoption of digital signal processing  
(dsp) tools.
.microsound is not a "genre" mailing list, since this proliferation  
has occurred largely without regard for stylistic boundary.  
instead, .microsound presents itself as a forum for the discussion and  
exploration of a more general "digital aesthetic" manifesting across a  
wide variety of styles and disciplines -- from academic computer music  
to post-industrial noise to experimental ambient and post-techno.


to group lower-case musics as a sub-genre of "microsound" (in your  
words a "technical term and musical genre")  is rather dangerous from  
a historical/curatorial point of view.. don't you think?

regards,
ben



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