RE: [microsound] sound art

[Philip Sherburne <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Strangely, there's nothing at all about the exhibit on the whitney's site
(www.whitney.org) -- perhaps it hasn't yet begun.  Rather dismaying, though,
given that it's one of the few media accessible to people who don't have
access to the whitney itself -- it would be *nice* to see an online portion
to the exhibit, with sound files and other information made available via
the web...  but i suppose i'm dreaming, once again. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Cooper
To: microsound
Sent: 1/9/00 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] sound art

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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