Due, you missed my point. I wasnt saying the printing press killed all culture. it begat so much of it. i was making an analogy. i'm against mediocrity.
With everyone and their mother getting in on djing, everyone and their mother cant be that good at it, that musical, or devoted. Between democracy and art/culture there are trade-offs. sometimes i dont like whats being traded. take the whole thing of everyone thinking they need to go to college in the us, for example. that doesnt go down in europe, and the youth there dont get f'ed in the ess with student loans. Finally, i dont know what the hell .microsound is. sounds pretentious and honestly i dont care to find out, no offense. i'm hip to non-street, non-dancey higher-brow sh*t like pierre henry, or whats labelled "new music" by certain people. but really, i like vinyl, dust (not too much), and nasty djs... And to be clear i dont think ableton or serato are the printing press--they are actually more related to oprahs book of the month club, harry potter, and other least common denominators. rather for 313, the printing press would be more like the vinyl cutting machine, the synthesizer, or roland drummachines. -a PS anyways how awesome is that Mills piece ?! On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:45 PM, David Powers <[email protected]> wrote: > This would be better discussed on the .microsound mailing list, but > suffice it to say that without the printing press we probably wouldn't > have Franz Kafka and Italo Calvino, not to mention the Age of > Enlightenment and the American Revolution. > > I don't believe in "democracy" per se, but surely access to the means > of production also means access for geniuses no matter how many > imbeciles may also have their say. The problem is lack of education, > not excess of democracy in the means of cultural production. > > ~David > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Andrew Beddow <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> now with the democratization of djing, everyone knows how to dj >>> supposedly.... the printing press was indeed an innovation, but the >>> quality of literary output is surely down in a world where literacy is >>> epidemic and books are published every day only to be thrown out the >>> next, where writing has devolved into txting and blogging. just as it >>> is with the written word, so too with electronic music in my book. >>> >> >> oh my god, incredible analogy. sorry, have nothing to contribute to >> this discussion, but amazing! text speak is the fault of the printing >> press! >> >> andrew >> >
