Po-Mo sounds

robinlandseadel at comcast.net robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Mon Oct 1 15:18:56 CDT 2007


So, took a drive to Borders today, to drop off the last 2 books I 
checked out, Barbra Tuckman's "The Guns of August" [gotta get a 
cheap used copy] and "Proust and the Squid: The Story and 
Science of the Reading Brain" By Maryanne Wolf:

http://tinyurl.com/3ah7xs

. . . . then went by Rasputin's to pick up some super-cheap thrills from 
their fifty-cent cd section. There was a Bach Motets collection led by Ton 
Koopman, The Peruvian Pipes of Sukay and a cd reissue of the Normal's 
single from 1978."Warm Leatherette" b/w "<<T.V.O.D.>>".

http://www.thinsite.net/photoblog/index.php?showimage=126

I never heard a good copy on a good stereo, now it sounds absolutely
prescient—it's essentially rap, the backdrop is totally mechanical, completely 
anti-human in its "techno" feel. This [I think] is what Postmodern music sounds 
like, taunting consumption in Zombified, Somnabulent sonic gestures, all 
threaded together with a constant electrical crackle. Laurie Anderson was 
headed in a similar direction around the same time [though it didn't really come 
to fruition till U.S. I-IV in 1982].

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jimmyd/laurie-anderson/work/albums/united-states.html

So, just throwing out to you—what is your idea of what Po-Mo music is or would 
be or should be?



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