As the opposing armies of Stultification and Innovation mass and equip themselves with all manners of sword, pike, cannon, battering ram, boiling oil, and armor (leather, mail, plate, you name it), I thought I might break the siege for a few moments of respite.
First, just because it provides some meta-context re: the very notion of the, ahem, "online colloquy":
"What Does a Very Large-Scale Conversation Look Like?", by Warren Sack (from the Electronic Book Review).
Choice quote? "What this map tells us is that no one is following up on what other people are saying."
Secondly, the details for the 3rd Annual No Idea Festival, to be held in Austin, TX, March 31st through April 3rd, 2005, have been announced. As with the 2004 festival, organizers / participants Chris Cogburn, Nick Hennies (and others, IIRC) have brought together an interesting group of young(ish) regional talents -- Dave Dove, Maria Chavez, Jason Jackson, and Rick Reed, to name but a few -- and free improvisers with more of a national reputation -- this year, Kyle Bruckmann, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jack Wright, and others -- for several days of experimental music-making deepintheheartof. This writer plans to attend, and to file some sort of report here @ Bagatellen.
Do I see a bit of blue sky through the smoke? [Cough.] Crap, once more into the breach...
~ PFC Joe Milazzo (AWOL)
Posted by joe on March 9, 2005 12:03 PMSorry Folks just answering that one
ULI :
"hey noel! are these private converstions from which aebly quotes over at jazzcorner true?"
DUNNO what you re talking about
have been traveling and so on
but would answer
best
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Buzzzzz, crackle, clang, bang, zing, sputter, fizzle, whirrrrrrrr, zzzzzzzzzap, blammo!
[A shout out for the buck private’s write-up of the ’04 gathering-gathered-to-disc at Bags’ cousin site OFN!]
Posted by: Gerald McBoing-Boing at March 9, 2005 1:50 PMthanks for the no idea fest link. i live in austin, and even know nick and chris with varying degrees of familiarity but didn't realize the site was up in some form.
Posted by: bw diederich at March 9, 2005 2:05 PM"ULI :
"hey noel! are these private converstions from which aebly quotes over at jazzcorner true?"
thanks for following up. It's irrelevant now (and probalby always was) like most of the music "talk" to tie in with this thread.
Posted by: uli at March 9, 2005 4:27 PMMr. Sack says: "...participants in these very large-scale conversations usually do not know the addresses of the others before the start of a conversation."
He should have added: "But if you decide to fuck with someone online, they can easily find your address and find ya and go kick the shit out of you, even after your unauthorized posting has been deleted on two (whatever these boards are called). So be careful!"
PS...Hey Joe, Tatsuya Nakatani is supposed to be playing at Sanctuary sometime around his Austin show, so don't be gone too long!
Posted by: Dennis Gonzalez at March 9, 2005 5:59 PMwe tried to arrange a couple houston days for this fest too, but they fell through.
depending on the wishes of some guests i'll have that weekend, i might come down for some music on saturday.
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