Info Unltd with Nick Scavo - Against World Building 27.01.2020

"Today I am speaking with Nick Scavo, a musician, writer and assistant curator
at ISSUE Project Room in New York City.


Over the last few years Nick has written a number of influential pieces about
music, and new experimental and electronic avant garde. We’re going to zero in
on the topic of an essay Nick wrote at the tail end of 2018 entitled, Against
World Building on Tinymixtapes .com. This piece was something of a mic-drop and
it’s resonance seems to continue ringing out. In fact the even sprouted legs and
left the blogosphere and twitter cycle when MIT Press reached out to nick to
write a follow up piece which should come out sometime in the next year. In the
essay and an a somewhat polemical style, Nick argues that much experimental and
electronic music today have become grandiose and concerned with the illusory
capacities of music rather then the formal material qualities and wo...

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