Re: [microsound] sound art

[Sean Cooper <scooper@xxxxxxxx>]

the author's too-brief "criticism" of this show says it all: 

	"What you will *not* hear at the Whitney are intricately determined 
	works considered classics of that forbiddingly intellectual 'electronic 
	music'..."

of course, the author himself does an admirable job of reinforcing the
stereotype of electronic music whereby the Whitney saw fit to subtract it
almost entirely from its program (despite the commitment to it of most of
the artists otherwise featured in the show), lest its "difficulty" scare
anyone away. 

sc

>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
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