From mcess Sent Tue, Sep 21st 1999, 02:25
From mcess Sent Tue, Sep 21st 1999, 02:25
>by the way, anyone make it to the perlon gig in san francisco this weekend? > >jonesing for a report. > >p I did, and I have to say, while the Perlon crew definitely got the crowd going, I much preferred Gouracandra's set (am I spelling that correctly?) just before Zip and the Perlon folks came on with plenty of Vocoded "badass muthafucka" intro noisemaking- as far as programming, variety of textures, and just general quality, Gouracandra rocked it. Perlon kept everyone going, I left at 3 and it was still bumpin'. Quite a swell installment of the Urban Development parties, supposedly the last one- but maybe that's just a marketing ploy. One last reminder: Labradford / Godspeed You Black Emperor / Matmos w Jay Lesser and some other special guests Sep 23 Thursday Great American Music Hall doors at 8, show starts at 9 defensive reminder: "Only Stupid People Call It Intelligent" was a QUOTE from Rather Interesting Records- it's a simplistic but funny slogan, but I don't want it laid (directly) at my doorstep. I do still stand by the position that as a component of a functional "genre" name, the word "intelligent" fails to do what genre names are supposed to do, namely, define a particular quality of the aesthetic class of objects that the name picks out, so that the name is helpfully descriptive. Defining a genre in terms of the emotions it produces in the listener can work (try "sadcore" and "the blues") but, as many posts have pointed out, intellectual (non-physical) response to sound is available as a reaction to ALL forms of music. By way of comparison, substitute "pleasure-giving" for "intelligent" and you will see the problem I'm trying to point out. I don't reject this term out of hostility towards "intelligence" or out of anti-intellectualism- as someone getting a PhD, that would put me in an odd position to say the least. Of course, from an "ordinary language" or late Wittgenstein perspective, if IDM helps a sizeable community group a set of sounds, then the name "works" regardless of what contradictions/simplifications come along for the ride. Fans of Richard Chartier should seek out his first CD "Direct. Incidental. Consequential" on the Intransitive label. It's amazing, and manages to have a very distinct fingerprint that gives it a very different feeling from the comparisons that come to mind (Ikeda, Panasonic, Guenter). And that bass! Booty for days! signed, Drew Now Playing: Vladislav Delay "Ele" (Sigma) This is fucking great!