I've got a LASER, Earthman! schrieb am 11.10.2002 13:46 Uhr:
Rota maybe, but JMJ was under Pierre Schaeffer's orders at the GRM, the group for musical research depending at the time of the French (public) tv, then of the INA (national institute for audiovisual).
Which are very elitist institutes (under the shadow of IRCAM, of cause), I know them ... Yes, you're right, Pierre Schaeffer knew JMJ, and as he once said, he saw "a connection between new sounds and the public" in JMJ. If you read this statement carefully, you will notice that there's a lot of ambivalence in it. ;-) I'm *relatively* familiar to the oeuvre of Pierre Schaeffer, and I'm far away from overrating him, but it seems to me that there are at best superficial relations between his works and the recordings of JMJ. Schaeffer always tried to find out the *meaning* of a sound (as Holger Czukay said: You have to listen very deeply into the sound to find out what he's saying). JMJ in my humble opinion did never and does not. He's not interested in deeply listening. He's a very talented supplier of flashes in the pan. - But that's a matter of taste ...
And it's strange you can't find the early JMJ works he didi at the time ;)
Maybe it's better this way ... -jan __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Möchten Sie mit einem Gruà antworten? http://grusskarten.yahoo.de