sound art

[Philip Sherburne <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You all might be interesting to check 2 articles in the NY Times today
(both are online today only) -- one is on 20th century experiments in
musical notation, and more narrowly, Sonic Youth's "Goodbye 20th
Century" and a new recording of Cornelius Cardew.  More on topic,
however, is an article on the Whitney Museum's current exhibition of
"Sound Art," featuring John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Glenn Gould, La Monty
Young, and... shudder to think:  DJ Spooky.  (Why, oh why, do they
include "the quintessentially postmodern vinyl collagist DJ Spooky,"
instead of any of a number of much more interesting and radical
composers... such as anyone discussed on this list?  But I digress.)

In any case, here's the article on the Whitney exhibit:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/artleisure/music-whitney.html

phil