Quelle: The Wire, January 2014, Collateral Damage: David Grubbs on 1960s recordings, http://thewire.co.uk/in-writing/collateral-damage-28138/collateral-damage_david-grubbs-on-1960s-recordings
Newly released recordings of experimental music from the 1960s
say more about our own time than the moment of their creation,
argues David Grubbs.
[...] When encountering this music in the form of new releases of
archival recordings, we are and we aren’t listening to
experimental practices from the 1960s. Access to previously
unavailable recordings makes for a listening experience that’s
often unrecognisable to the originators of such activities.
With archival recordings, it’s not only a matter of being
outside of the time of its creation (the joint is out of time);
older recordings – accessed now, resuscitated now – actively
participate in our present moment. [...]
