> Neil Wallace: > >Ive always avoided this book as ive seen kodwo on a few music > >documentaries and he always seems to be completely up his own a$$ > I attended a guest lecture by Kodwo last year at the Art Institute of Chicago. The lecture focused specifically on Herbert's "Bodily Functions," the Matmos Liposuction album, and Bjork's latest work - he used these to represent the newest incarnation of sample based music and how the role of samples in music has undergone functional and conceptual rediscovery over the years with the changing technologies.
All this said, I've always looked at Kodwo as an Art Historian who has good taste in music - and as such, he does usually spew a lot of sh!t that is irrelelvant to the music just to reassure him of his own intelligence (no offense to art historians on the list). But on the other hand, at least he is spreading interest in good music- he reaches an audience that would not necessarily be embracing electronic music were it not for the intellectual discussions that he brings to the table. peace, p
