and now, a completely different take on this whole technology/music/listening thang…there’s an upcoming wire salon entitled “we hear a new world: microphony, technology and the rise of sound art.”
this made me think of the way technology has been used, mistreated and misunderstood to produce unexpected, and sometimes uncannily fantastic, environments. i’m thinking of musique concrete, christian marclay’s shattered vinyl symphonies, gordon monahan’s speaker-swinging sounds (see photo above), dub’s inversion of the studio as instrument, neubauten’s mechanical mayhem, the acidic squelch of a roland 303 pushed beyond its limits. sometimes mistakes sound so good.
anyways, the salon looks like it could be a tasty little soiree, even if i’ve veered off course with this post. so check it out on september 2 if you’re in london. which i won’t be.
