--- On Sat, 4/17/10, Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [PD] nusmuk_audio WAS: Max Smoother Audio than Pd? To: colet.patrice@free.fr, "Ariane stolfi" arianestolfi@gmail.com Cc: "pd-list" pd-list@iem.at, reduzierer@yahoo.de Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 4:30 AM
--- On Sat, 4/17/10, Ariane stolfi arianestolfi@gmail.com wrote:
From: Ariane stolfi arianestolfi@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PD] nusmuk_audio WAS: Max Smoother Audio than Pd? To: colet.patrice@free.fr Cc: "pd-list" pd-list@iem.at, reduzierer@yahoo.de Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 1:49 AM
In every field of art and also in apllied arts, the aesthetics is always related to the means of production available. This is true for music, for achitecture and even for industrial design.
Let's take the concrete, for example. Some of the early architecture produced with concrete, was attempts to reproduce the old aesthetics of building with bricks and stone (and there are people doing this untill now). It took some time untill the emergence of modern architecture, whose aesthetics is much more related to the phisical characteristics of the new material.
It seems that here we have the same issue, people trying to use a new medium to reproduce aesthetics related to another one. When we try to build a plastic chair that looks like a wooden one, this is called "kitch", and I think its the same if we simply try to reproduce certain kinds of music with this new medium.
Kitsch is not the only possible result of imposing an "old" aesthetics on a new medium-- think of early African pottery that has woven lines painted on it that refer to earlier, less sturdy woven containers (or woven branches of baskets). Also, think of mashups, where the artists aren't even reproducing old sounds-- they're just taking them wholesale, but clearly creating new sounds (and forms!) in the process.
If you don't pay attention to the way seemingly simplistic processes , your new sounds will end up sounding a lot like other people's new sounds which make the same broad generalizations about what is old vs. what is new.
Oops. I erased a word: "... seemingly simplistic processes _create_ _meaning_"
-Jonathan
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