On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 22:09, Chris <mute@tpg.com.au> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 27th, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
You all seem to miss the point I was trying to make. :-D
I didn't. The whole point of the 17 being unrecorded is that each performance exists as a rumination, a memory, a concept, an ideal - the book is about this, and is in no way equivalent to a collection of sound recordings.
It sounds like you did. Why not just give talks, share ruminations and conversation, build memories and explore an ideal rather than writing it down for posterity and mass consumption?
a) Bill likes organising his thoughts b) the book is about A SHITLOAD MORE of his thoughts on music and listening than just The 17 events! c) writing books is p much his dayjob
Why even bother to actually hold the 17 performances when he could just think about them and scratch his arse?
You're still missing the point, I think. I'll try again: Bill could have recorded an album of music about talking about The17 with people instead of writing a book about it, since publishing books is dead. For the same reason that recorded albums are out of Bill's favor, perhaps the written word in dead tree form ought to be, too. Or at least it's amusing to poke fun at.