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    Formalism?

    I don't really know what you mean about 'neatly separating sound and rhythm' - that isn't what I suggested at all. But yes, as you say, we can represent sounds themselves - and reproduce these representations - in texts, using either of those two methods. However, this does not get round the...
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    Pinter wins Nobel

    well, they are a bit, but the early ones are better. the difference with beckett is that he actually *meant* his plays to be "boring" -- he created a sort of punative theatre. he was interested in pushing the limit of what was an acceptable minimum of theatrical action, or to put it another...
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    DJ Top 100 2005

    in no particular order -- kode 9 wighnomy bros plasticman dj orgasmic (ttc) target abe duque erol alkan weatherall
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    Formalism?

    "Is a critical discussion of technical matters like melody, rhythm, harmony, chord progressions, technique, technology, production, songwriting, arranging, performance less valid than the sociological/political ramifications of the music(ian)? Do the formal considerations detract from enjoyable...
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    grime going bourgeois

    yeah and it would be nice - if perhaps a little naive - to think that neither one demographic had neccessarily to exclude the other. certainly that was the case at fwd that night. blackdown's piece about integration (or the lack of it) - http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/ - describes a...
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    grime going bourgeois

    haha! yeh, that was me. but mate, glasshouses? and anyway if grime is going to be anything other than a dead end scene it has to appeal to a wider audience than its 'grassroots' base. and that doesn't necessarily involve a loss of 'authenticity': it's possible to distinguish between the...
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