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Clicks and Cuts 2
Digital machines cover up meaning, disrupt sense, delete historic markings and traces. They do not distinguish, they do calculate. Everything is determined and can be calculated. Sampling already evades the cut-up method which permanently confirms the unity of its system by cutting up and adding texts.
The surfaces of these machines no longer show pictures, but models where music cuts out the aesthetic connotation and becomes purely operational. Only in this way is music able to grow metastatically.
Clicks and Cuts are its symptoms, omnipresent and without reference. Here we can hear the in-between, the leap which links loops, the transitions, and even where clicks simulate the essence of a metronome, the continuous beat, they are also phrase, where the predictable order of emphasis gives way to a permanent shift of emphasis.
Source: Mille Plateaux
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