Notes Toward The Post-Electronic:

The electronic device, whether a playstation or proper synth, is the sensible device on which to make music. Millenials grew up with the internet, not to mention videogames, google avatars the make music on command. The synthesized sound is natural, a kind of environmental awareness. Chintzy-sounding electronic tones become almost like sentimental objects. Music like Ariel Pink is more the Proustian power of it's obscelesence, its distorted celebration of a failed way of life i.e. material wealth, real estate, property, sovereignty. All of these concepts problematized by constant surveillance in everyday life.

Sound itself, recorded sound, is necessarily synthesized sound: it requires shaping, presentation matters etc.