tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post6258939425626140743..comments2023-09-25T22:26:25.692+10:00Comments on mnml ssgs: Austere Anti Austerity Measures: a few good .zips, containing the possibility of sound and musicchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030219185948353658noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post-88725706604413944522012-11-28T21:27:04.593+11:002012-11-28T21:27:04.593+11:00Thanks for posting this. Your website is so intere...Thanks for posting this. Your website is so interesting and very informative.Thanks sharing. Definitely a great piece of work Thanks for your work<br /><a href="http://www.shehulegal.com" rel="nofollow">advisory</a>Jerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11033541435894381324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post-8676317150282120312012-11-05T20:20:30.676+11:002012-11-05T20:20:30.676+11:00Great!!!Superb writing!!!
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www.bestfactsever.b...hey great work!!! loved it:):)<br />www.bestfactsever.blogspot.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06891764868085358847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post-44077400158046171242012-05-29T23:21:50.688+10:002012-05-29T23:21:50.688+10:00cheers for nominating some interesting sounds - al...cheers for nominating some interesting sounds - always open to new recommendations.<br /><br />Quick question though: these albums are quite intense, arty, deep etc which is great/interesting and has its place - BUT what do you listen to when you want something joyful, fun, light/bright... do you ever bust out a Jack Johnson album for some light relief?<br /><br />cheers<br /><br />WWestyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07867449307600524386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post-14880504337210735982012-05-25T12:42:56.583+10:002012-05-25T12:42:56.583+10:00@PC - Wouldn't say 'need'; more a case...@PC - Wouldn't say 'need'; more a case of you get what you put in - i.e. the more you invest in something - be it money, time, concentration - the more benefits you'll derive. Surely more complex than that but that's basically how it works for me.Joshualinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08722479624686056491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post-21617591873936867562012-05-22T22:13:05.159+10:002012-05-22T22:13:05.159+10:00Spaces need to be cultivated. I don't think th...Spaces need to be cultivated. I don't think that this is an easy task; in fact it probably takes a great deal of effort.<br /><br />I suppose it is clearly related to mental space - and that is inseparable from time and movement. One of the primary constraints of this paradigm is that we are constantly rushed, constantly threatened by time - time eating away at us. Movement being an imperative - it is basically involuntary. <br /><br />Muso's generally like grass for a reason - it fractures those spacial and temporal dimensions and opens up a different refrain; a refrain where music can breathe, can take its rightful place at the centre of the universe, rather than being subordinate to the demands we make of it to fit in with our mad dash to nowhere.<br /><br />So, I'm not suggesting that we should smoke grass - but there is something in the stoner's deliberate cultivation of a different space-time configuration that is probably very important. Maybe the key is that it is deliberate.tobeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13347451418878608896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post-50909681461703563272012-05-22T21:20:33.752+10:002012-05-22T21:20:33.752+10:00@ TEA: it's true your body knows, no? But this...@ TEA: it's true your body knows, no? But this isn't quite music, is it. I keep coming back to this one interview with Sakamoto.<br /><br />http://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic026/html/072_073e.html<br /><br />worth reading closely…<br /><br />@ Daragh: I like to score! The question is, why record? Then also: what happens when you have to record to reproduce your life as a musician? Unless you're Prince, who, because he is Prince, has figured it's actually a much, much better idea not to record:<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/23/prince-interview-adele-internet<br /><br />@ Toby: I wonder how/where such spaces are possible though? I went to a wonderful warehouse party on Sat. By 5 the cops were there, and now it's under a cloud. Not just silence, but also a space without permission, is so fragile. That tells us a lot about where and how we live.<br /><br />@ Joshualine: so what you seem to be suggesting is that we *need* an economy - ie, scarce resources - in order to exchange and enjoy music in a way that is meaningful?PChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828854682227101864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post-77013934758166493852012-05-22T13:46:41.169+10:002012-05-22T13:46:41.169+10:00Re: silence...
See David Toop's Haunted Weath...Re: silence...<br /><br />See David Toop's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Weather-Music-Silence-Memory/dp/1852428120" rel="nofollow">Haunted Weather</a>.BGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14202169834430317459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post-6750572776588670892012-05-22T09:57:41.793+10:002012-05-22T09:57:41.793+10:00Re: daragh99 - folk/traditional music has been tra...Re: daragh99 - folk/traditional music has been traded long before and without the need for written notation, and without the need for specialist skills (aside from performance, and folk music is generally welcoming of participants with low/no skills)<br /><br />Tobes point on silence is spot on. Similarly the use of limits / restrictions on music consumption work wonders. That's partly why we all remember the pre-download era with such fondness - we were limited by how much music we could consumeJoshualinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08722479624686056491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post-39126313638533851552012-05-21T19:16:47.845+10:002012-05-21T19:16:47.845+10:00This comment has been removed by the author.laoganmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07242630736140642365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post-20714300274197774142012-05-21T08:56:16.102+10:002012-05-21T08:56:16.102+10:00I like the article.
I think, in response to the q...I like the article.<br /><br />I think, in response to the question that you raise, that it is maybe about creating a sacred space, intimately connected to an ontology of silence.<br /><br />We have to divorce ourselves from the reality that music has become omnipresent - it is everywhere, available at all times, part of backgrounds, foregrounds, inner and outer realities.<br /><br />I think we have to fracture this - which is partly about austerity, as you say. Music can only return as a sacred force, if silence is returned. If the two are in opposition - that music is a tool used to overcome and fill up silence - then silence is seen as an oppressive force which must be denied at all costs. If you look closely, there is usually an emotional impatience at the bottom of that - a desire to have something in place of nothing. Music thus becomes a cheap fill to a Lacanian lack, rather than something truly sacred; maybe the only genuinely sacred thing.<br /><br />So if silence is not understood and appreciated - if it is seen as nothing rather than something intensely rich and interesting - then music cannot exist as intensely rich and interesting either.tobeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13347451418878608896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post-2488034535956201222012-05-20T21:12:37.504+10:002012-05-20T21:12:37.504+10:00It's worth mentioning that music only became e...It's worth mentioning that music only became exchangeable between unskilled humans with the advent of recording and playback technologies. Prior to this all that could really be exchanged were scores, which required skilled musicians to bring to life. This would have naturally limited the set of people involved in musical transactions, and the social dynamics were certainly inherently different. I guess there was a hell of a lot more work involved in getting to the music you wanted in those days.daragh99https://www.blogger.com/profile/06376195624456291966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220957931635097123.post-49190174413868532042012-05-20T16:32:12.199+10:002012-05-20T16:32:12.199+10:00Over the weekend I DJed at a pop up restaurant/art...Over the weekend I DJed at a pop up restaurant/art installation and sound tracked the patrons entry, three course meal, drinks and exit. <br /><br />I played everything from Deepchord and Luke Hess to Tony Allen and Jane Birkin - Quite the DJing experience. I noticed as I made my way from deeper/ambient sounds into jazzier, R&B styles, the general level of room noise i.e chitter chatter rose.<br /><br />No one was paying particular attention to the music as i was essentially there to set a mood, but people physically reacted to the timbre of the more jovial music.<br /><br />During the main course, I kept the music rather festive, and in turn so was the room. It would have been an interesting contrast to see the reactions of the meal had I kept the music somewhat sombre...<br /><br />So yes, one example of how music is as much an aural thing as it is physical.TEAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07826102604831074930noreply@blogger.com