Lectura de duminica
Un dialog interesant pornit de la articolul lui Philip Sherburne din Pitchfork cu Mark Fisher (Wire),
Owen Hatherley si Simon Reynolds (autor al Energy Flash si Generation Ecstacy) despre minimal, Berlin, vibe-tribalism si creatives.
in ordinea aparitiei:
Philip Sherburne – The Month In: Techno (Pitchfork column, august)
“[…] electronic dance music, which once spun blithely under a yellow smiley face, seems uncommonly sober these days– self-critical, nail-biting, a buzzkill to the extreme. Minimal, of course, was the straw that overflowed the glass of Red Bull. Scapegoat or no, in the last 18 months, the ubiquitous and yet strangely ephemeral genre has become a lightning rod for every conceivable critique. It’s too soulless. It all sounds the same. It’s lost touch with the roots of “real” dance music.”
Mark Fisher – Return to the fairground (Wire blog)
“Minimalism and austerity in dance music work best as counterpoints to more ebullient fare – a short, salty shock to set the scene for the climax to come, or to open up space for you mind to go wandering. But now minimal Techno rarely plays off against anything else; it is the main event.”
Owen Hatherley – Existence Minimal
“I can’t imagine Berlin techno returning to the fairground, but perhaps a possible way out of the inertia is by exacerbating the culture’s own vices (anal precision, decadence, a certain sentimentality, the feeling of living in a city of scars and wastes) until they become virtues.”
Mark Fisher – 12 Hour Party People (Wire blog)
“minimal might be characterised as nomadalgia: a lack of sense of place, a drift through club or salon spaces that, like franchise coffee bars, could be anywhere.”
“[…]the whole explosive tension-release, living-for-the-weekend economy of energy that underpins the more tribal-vibal forms of dance culture is absent in minimal. It is much more about a plateau state of pleasure and pleasantness[…]”
Posted in academia, de-dans on August 30th, 2008 by de-dans | 2 Comments
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