[NewMusic] matmos lecture: the re-dematerialization of the art object

[Barry Threw]

Sarah - 21 Grand wrote:
> Barry wrote:
> 
>> - No, you're the equivalent of someone playing the preset song on the Casio
>> mini-keyboard I got for Christmas when I was 9.
> 
> And there are some people who would see that as a valid art statement.
> ...  Some asshole goes up on stage, presses a button on a
> casio, and looks very austere.  By sheer hubris and wordplay they
> convince an audience that it is a worthwhile statement.
> 
> - precisely my point.

I don't get it?  Are you agreeing with me?  That was unexpected.

> - I'm prepared to end it now for the sake of people on this list who'd
> rather discuss music or look at Aurora's self-portraits in the restroom.

Well, this discussion of the art-object includes music.. In the sense 
that Matmos indicated that they would like the concetion of their music 
to be somewhere in the gray area between the concepts behind their 
works, and the music itself.

I personally take a very different stance with my own music.   I just 
like to create something that I perceive as beautiful and let my 
audience (my conceptual audience) take what they will.  Hopefully, 
everyone can find their own space in it somewhere.

b

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Today, Noise is triumphant and reigns sovereign over the sensibility of men.
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