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Did a casual listen to most of this last nite and liked what I heard. All the Parmegiani I've heard...I've enjoyed and warrents further investigation. Thx for posting.

...btw, I still stand by my table pounding recommendation of BP's La Creation Du Monde. Very cosmic, you can even say psychedelic.

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Finally got around to giving this ("De Natura Sonorum") a proper listen. Stonking stuff. Will try to write something more insightful in due course, but definitely stonking stuff.

The more I delve into electro-acoustic music, the more I realise the likes of NWW and Coil weren't really as innovative as I used to think. Although there's an interesting point here about the signification of sounds- I think with NWW, and maybe even more with Coil, there's a very deliberate use of sound to make allusions to certain states of mind, sexual activity, whatever. Whereas Pierre Schaeffer for example had the idea that sound could be decoupled from all association, could become a pure experience of itself alone. Can this ever be possible? Personally I think it would depend more on the state of mind of the listener, and what quality of attention they bring to the listening, than to the sound itself.

With the Parmegiani, some of the titles imply quite specific associations ("Sonore Geologie" for example), but a lot of the time I was struck by the apparent lack of obvious reference points or pointers. This isn't a criticism- far from it, when so much music one hears uses such predictable tropes or serves mainly to remind one of something else.

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