From Jon Drukman Sent Thu, Jun 4th 1998, 02:43
From Jon Drukman Sent Thu, Jun 4th 1998, 02:43
Brother Alphabet wrote: > I listened to the track a number of times. I didn't get that impression at > all. The point that people like Thaemlitz seem to chronically miss is that > no matter how long you puke up so-called meanings, there is no way you can > guarantee they'll transliterate to the minds of those who ingest what you > do. If you have to blatantly define what you're doing over 6 panels of > liner, you're a liar and a fraud. says who? you, that's who. i think that's crap. an artist can present ten minutes of a single drumbeat and say "that's about the failure of communism." who are you to disagree? the beautiful thing about music is its ultimately abstract quality. that's part of why i like it, anyway. one of my forthcoming tracks is called "how it feels to be 29". who are you to say that i can't define the track as that feeling? i could just as well paint a picture or make a sculpture and call it the same thing. > Thaemlitz just made a bunch of noise and > added in this supposed meaning in subsequence. i don't think that invalidates it. > That generally comes from the repeated proof we see in > every day news that leftists are a sackload of morons. you sound more like you have an axe to grind rather than any legitimate musical criticism to offer. > Anyway, it wouldn't matter if the track was composed of samples of > Thaemlitz farting on the toilet over a span of two months. No > unrecognizable sound will "exemplify" anything. to you perhaps. some of us can think in 3 dimensions. > I hear so many "artists" say things so similar to this that it's making me > question the point of creating at all. What ever became of making things > because one felt compelled to make them? maybe you make the track first and then figure out what it means to you. if you want to share it, that's fine. if you want to call it "phart 3.14159" then that's fine too. > The sad fact of the matter is that the untalented get away with making > worthless crap because they are able to pass it off as some > sort of intellectual experimentation through the use of ArtSpeak. Funny > how crap like that almost always comes from those beloved leftists! well thank god you're so much better than us and can see through all that crap then. > As an artist and as a fan of this form of music I am completely repelled > by this bullshit Thaemlitz peddles in his liner notes. The only thing > that keeps me buying his music is that I like the way it sounds. (Oh, > well...that's reality...) :) then shut up. i am uncomfortable with muslimgauze's anti-semitic stances but i still listen to his albums. Jon Drukman xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Plan: Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.