I get the feeling that the backlash to dubstep on this incarnation on dissensus doesn't have as much to do with boredom as people make it out to be, undoubtedly most of it is unspeakably boring, no ifs or buts about it. but there was an impulse there that was a conscious invocation of music only really happening in the absence of silence, or put it this way, music as organised noise only makes sense in the absence of noise. this is why progressive metal is unlikely to appeal to most people into house. there is no room for empty space there. some people say the four to the floor is boring because it doesn't change like breakbeats, but that's missing the point, you're supposed to listen to the bits between the kicks, claps high hats and snares. the panache and the shuffle. Droid's deep listening ideas i feel are very key here.
and people will say nah nah but we love lee perry. but a lot of that is for its weed haze and lo fi production values.
well I'm not saying you should like dubstep luke and barty (in fact i would rather you not tbh) but there was something there in dark garage which you and barty also tempt to dismiss. but i think those 2step beats with negative space was a good impulse. might upload a radio soon, listening to some hardcore acid now before little muhammad goes to sleep.
Well this is it isn't it. Timbaland, the neptunes, 2-step, all that stuff relies heavily on negative space.
ask when encountering music.
what movements and manners does it map out? what elegances does it encode? what excellencies?
what sophistications of understanding and attainment?
what does it aspire to?
what is the good life?
how is time structured? and what pace does it move at? what does it feel like to be in a body moving at that tempo, and in that rhythm? is this a fairground ride or is it otherwise?
can you imagine talking like that? walking like that? feeling like that? where is the weight centred? are you light on the feet? marching?
do you not like it? what is it to not like it? what is causing the discomfort?
do you like it? what is it doing to you that feels good? why does it feel good?
is it redolent of an era? which era? what is it that ties it to its time? or what is it about its time that is preserved within it?
a comportment? a psychological attitude? a bearing towards the world? how is that enacted in the music?
of the quoted content this was what resonated with me the most the first time I read it. just a way of being receptive/attuned to what different music does, rather than selectively looking for certain qualities and missing what’s actually interesting about the thing in front of you. (not that’s inherently bad, or that we don’t do it most of the time.)what motions does it describe?
masculine music is the phenomenology of velocity, feminine music is the phenomenology of physiology.
this speaks to the cognitive processes of of fight vs surrender. movement vs rest.
feminine music intimately and precisely maps out the body; breathy vocals, the way it textural on the skin, it's preoccupation with taste. these are only entertained by our cognition when we're inactive.
when you get punched you don't actually feel the pain till after the fight's over. masculine music is about processing of events and information (often rapidly).
This makes me think that third's thing of antihuman machine music has to lean toward the masculine.
masculine music is the phenomenology of velocity, feminine music is the phenomenology of physiology.
this speaks to the cognitive processes of of fight vs surrender. movement vs rest.
feminine music intimately and precisely maps out the body; breathy vocals, the way it textural on the skin, it's preoccupation with taste. these are only entertained by our cognition when we're inactive.
when you get punched you don't actually feel the pain till after the fight's over. masculine music is about processing of events and information (often rapidly).
What barty says about velocity, fight, movement, processing of events and information all strike me as qualities of the machine; rest, breath, taste, surrender and skin being qualities of the human. Obviously both apply to the human, but only one applies to the machine.