Re: (idm) meta-modern

From Kent Williams
Sent Thu, Aug 5th 1999, 22:16

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, david turgeon wrote:

> > 7. Signal and noise are artificial distinctions.  You can make the noise
> >    the signal -- see Oval again.
> 
> so if there's no distinction between anything, how come do people still
> manage to find oval's songs 'soothing' & say, disc's songs 'disturbing',
> considering that they use the same source material?
> 
> can postmodernism answer that?
> 
We're meta-modern here, not postmodern.  there is a difference between
henny young using a violin and yehudi menuhin using the same violin.
Using the source materials just means using the same source materials.
I use the same alphabet as Jackie Collins or Kahlil Gibran, and no one
mistakes me for them.