From Sean Cooper Sent Thu, Jun 4th 1998, 19:35
From Sean Cooper Sent Thu, Jun 4th 1998, 19:35
> hmmm, i ignored this pbo thing when it first > popped in my inbox a few weeks ago, but now > i'm kind of wondering if anyone knows the > whole story. it would seem rather idiotic of > the chocolate industries people to straight > rip warp (or skam, or whoever) off and release > a track that shouldn't be released by them. > it's not like an mp3 where some one gets > slapped on the wrist by the record company, > removes the mp3, and lives happily ever after. > these are some serious accusations, and i'm > suprised, if the accusations are true, that > we haven't heard anything from warp, chocolate > industries, or anyone. the theft was from schematic, not warp or skam. what makes it vague is that it happened in the transfer of operations of schematic from seven (who currently owns and operates chocolate industries) to romulo and joshua (of phoenecia, metic, jeswa, etc.). according to the latter, the former was still receiving schematic mail after the label had been transferred, and that the tape with the remix (to have been used on a forthcoming schematic remix ep) arrived in seven's hands instead of theirs. who knows what the whole truth is, but i think the breach was more ethical than legal. regardless, this list's silence on the question is still surprising. > Avant-garde and experimental music, as with all contemporary art, is deeply > intellectualized. One may fairly level a criticism at art being purely > intellectual, and therefore generating no emotional response even when the > audience has the requisite intellectual background. this criticism rests on the presumption that the response or engagement "proper" to music is emotional, and does not serve one well in the context of terre's music (nor, i would argue, in the context of much experimental music)...it's interesting how we continue to look for stable, objective ground upon which to rest our opinions of the music discussed on this list when it's precisely that strategy mainstream culture has continually animated to devalue it. sc