Clicks & Cuts - Mille Plateaux

You have come here, you must think about minimalism. Be it the minimalism of rich kinds of idea - based, abstract experiments, or the poor minimalism of reduded sounddesign, abstractions of substraction. You clicked, somebody delivered. Whatever happened, thoughts of minimalism, of reduced interfaces, reduction of input or musical preferences will have led you to clicks & cuts. And with it you will be introduced to a new differenciation of your concept of the minimalist nation. The digital routing of ideas based on sound, it's flaws, delicacies, it's enlightnement, and it's value for the times to come. It's clicks & cuts. And as you guessed, its clicks and cuts.

Remember the days when all was easy? When a nes sound created a soundgeneration every couple of months, and progession was not an internal quality of electronic music, but it's driving force? The days when compilations such as Bleeps & Clonks suggested that it only takes an exclusive snippet of reality, a buzzworld that rings true to the technogeneration, cause it reflects their life, to construct a new world. Times when a new genre wasn't just a sub-something of a sub-something, but fact? Well, stop remembering, these days have arrived once again, and they have changed.

As the sphere of electronics no longer belongs to the realm of transistors, translations of icomplatible speech of cryptic protocols, midi, sync and such, to the originality of the machine, but is imbedded in a wider range of calculated reality, simulated, emulated and otherwise constructed picturing the desies of a digital residue generation, there are new collisions of man, data & machine, new collaborations, but before all. a new basis of working together, and it's first elements are click & cuts. It is the Cut-Copy-Paste-Funk of the most unessentialist sounds ever, the clicks, the movements from one to zero made audible to and from a computermusicgeneration, that finds a new entente to be the departure of all relevance for the century come. Clicks no longer are a part of what can be imagined as a cultural process, they are it's value, it's measuring, it's money, rules, laws, content, communication and whatever transaction media give way to. Clicks are where the good old words, ideas, the symbolic realm translates into action on the two sides of an interface, where fragmented cuts start circulating in ways Clicks & Cuts is trying to accomodate you to. To make you feel at home, in a place heard of, but yet unknown, fascinating in it's ability to change perception of processes and processes of perception and what will be.

Clicks & Cuts is an introduction to the functioning of 21st century minimalism, the collection of schools of sound to come, and schools of life to follow. And it sounds first of all promising.

Sascha Kösch
V.A. Clicks & Cuts 1. Mille Plateaux 79. 2000



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