Is it possible to narrate music? Music, is it an narrative discourse? A reflection about music, does it have to be musical? Does music refuse to be written and to be put into experiments of discoursive order, a text of its musicalisation and decomposition a-significant intenseness? Which part have the technologies of the media in this context?
Digital and electronic music constitutes itself by difference. Its a-centric structure is produced by unstable, passing events. It forms a kind of language, a chain of signs without referring to a sense-centre. It doesn?t function as a carrier of messages and resists every experiments of discoursive decoding. This opens the possibility to interpret it in every form to compose texts by it.
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szepanskimedia, Edition Mille Plateaux, Achim Szepanski
Untermainkai 30, 60329 Frankfurt/Main Germany, Phone:0049-69-242 494 43, www.edition-mille-plateaux.com, www.szepanskimedia.com
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ABB: Kid606 “Despite All My Rave I’m Still Just A Bat In a Cave”, Berlin
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artists represented:
Walking on Ice Frank Bretschneider - Composer from Berlin, komet elektrolux, Mille Plateaux
Alva Noto Neue Stadt Skizze 8, Carsten Nicolai, Karl Kliem, Raster-Noton. Mille Plateaux
Digital and electronic music is entered into the technic, it is media-music.
?Soundcultures? discusses central aspects of contemporary electronic and digital music, created in the last years out of the verge of Techno, New Music and Science of Arts. In the multitude of publications to the subjects: New Media, Media-Technology and Media-Theory, the field of music has nearly been left out completely. ?Soundcultures? tries to close this gap.
Sometimes Amazing geometry in motion! Produced by Pleix. Music: Kid606. Mille Plateaux 2003
Well known authors in the field of sociology, media-theory, musicology, philosophy and science of arts try to give a general idea of electronic and digital music and to establish a dialog with different actual theories.
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