the webby

First I refer you to this link for some background:
http://public.srce.hr/~fsupek/debussy.html

Reading between the lines, or listening to the sounds of silence might apply
more to Usenet, specifically our "little community of smd" more so than we
realize at first glance. Sometimes we forget about the need to evaluate the
rhythm and the beat of the noise for its overall worth before rendering
conclusions as to the noise of smd. To evaluate the noise, we must also
evaluate the details of the silence.

I have never cared much for being a follower; team member is fine, but team
leader with a dedicated team is better. But that is for work that requires
team action. I don't care for rules in art and learning if what I want to
be is "inventive" or "artistic". So, in 1994, I disregarded the idea that
Usenet was for followers only ... I preferred to be my own leader and if
anyone cared to or dared to follow me or join me, that would be up to each
person as an individual. I did not need followers then and I do not need
any today either. I'm willing to walk my own walk with my own talk if that
is what is necessary for me to be artistically expressive; that is, perhaps
just enough offbeat that someones notices and wonders why. Anyway... as for
the perception that "noise" is always just empty noise (defined as worthless
sound) and as such, it will be the cause for the ruination of smd ... well
.... I do not agree that such is probable. It may well be possible ... but
that is not because of "the noise". It is the lazy way to excuse ourselves
from contributing to the quality of the unique music that can be heard here
if we just take time to listen, and perhaps to even contribute to the sound
of smd's culture.

If you have ever listened carefully and extensively to the work recorded by
The Art of Noise (artist name) in their album collection titled "The
seduction of Claude Debussy" - 1999-, you might relate more easily to the
point I'm trying to make. If you've never heard of any music recorded by
"The Art of Noise", it's probably because you aren't "into" the genre of
electronica or electronica/dance (at all) *but* it's probable that you have
either heard the name Claude Debussy or the familiar sounds he created; such
as, "Clair de lune" even if you don't know anything or much of anything
about the artist (hence the link). If he were alive today, I would be most
interested in asking his opinion of the art and artists found to be making
all the noises in smd. Would Debussy have followed the rules for the art of
making our modern noise or would he have looked for his own unique way?
Only he would know the answer but I have my own ideas about him and people
like him throughout time. They dared to be different in order to be.

So, I readily admit that I have interjected an uncertain yet plentiful
amount of my own style of "noise" here in smd for close to a decade of
earthly time. But it was all for a cause that I believed in then and
continue to believe in today. Rules are for the likes of math and science;
and dead languages. smd and Usenet as I see them as a whole, are an
unrecognized modern art form. The collection of words that are tasteful to
some or many or most .... or distasteful to some, many or most are the
expressions of humanity, like it or not ... some of which is a source of
pride to some and to others as something without value. But no matter what
anyone "says" about this newsgroup or any other ... we cannot pretend it
does not exist. We can ignore whatever we wish but that does not make it
disappear from existence. Therefore we are left to evaluate our modern
global society for what it is ...

Some say that the essence of music comes not from what you hear but rather
from the space between the sounds of what you hear ... that music results
from the absence of sounds; the rhythm and the beat. Without rhythm and
beat, the time between the assembled sounds ... there is no music ... only
noise. So far, I have yet to experience a lack of silence in smd. It
continues to have a heartbeat ... which results from a silence between the
noise.

"The TMJ Iatroepidemic" (by Webby & Chang, published 1997) is a living
example of how I feel about daring to influence. I decided to try out some
new ideas in the art of noise; sculpting words and ideas in a style that
Claude Debussy might have understood if Usenet had been an option to the art
of expression in his day.

Sincerely,

The Webby

in article 72278409.0308122023.4e72e7a1@posting.google.com, Steven Fawks DDS