{"id":479,"date":"2007-04-23T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=479"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:27:26","slug":"he-comes-back-from-a-new-music-gig-feeling-disgruntled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/04\/he-comes-back-from-a-new-music-gig-feeling-disgruntled.html","title":{"rendered":"He Comes Back from a New Music Gig Feeling Disgruntled!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have come to realise that, along with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.letspolka.com\/2006\/05\/myron-florens-disco-polka\/\">Disco Polka<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;Contemporary Christian&#8221;, the most contemptible pairing of words in the world of music is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/transition.turbulence.org\/networked_music_review\/2007\/04\/16\/live-stage-the-sound-source-electromania-london\/\">Spatialised Electroacoustic<\/a>&#8220;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After going to gigs like this for years I realise it&#8217;s all the same. The same shiny crunchy timbre of over-processed sound, the same repeating regularity in the loops, the same reverb in the mix, the same mystification of the source material, the same ethrallment at reproducing a surface effect for its own sake, with no thought or mood to support it, the same lack of compositional shape, the same self-contained complacency in its aesthetic goals.  It&#8217;s all d\u00e9j\u00e0-entendu, without the spark of individuality present in any composer&#8217;s work to distinguish one example of the genre from another. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The technology reached a level of sophistication and accessibility in the 1990s that almost nobody has been able to transcend.  Everyone is so beholden to the great, potential capabilities of the software that no-one working with it for long can resist altering their creative processes in a way that better accommodates that technological potential, at the expense of their true creativity.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">(A visual example: try to find a scene of CGI landscape in a film that <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">doesn&#8217;t<\/span> have some birds flying over and through it.)<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is partly a problem of composers conceiving the music as being defined by its technical apparatus.  There&#8217;s good contemporary, christian music out there, but it doesn&#8217;t describe itself as Contemporary Christian.  Now that electroacoustic music is ten-a-penny, spatialisation is the new incursion of ossified academicism: there&#8217;s infrastructure and funding needed to support that, with the attendant accumulation of material resources to legitimise cultural authority that the music cannot substantiate on its own.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ardbeg.com\/shop.asp?Cat=16\">Uigedail<\/a>!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have come to realise that, along with &#8220;Disco Polka&#8221; and &#8220;Contemporary Christian&#8221;, the most contemptible pairing of words in the world of music is &#8220;Spatialised Electroacoustic&#8220;. After going to gigs like this for years I realise it&#8217;s all the same. The same shiny crunchy timbre of over-processed sound, the same repeating regularity in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}