Re: site of sound

[anechoicmedia <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc McNulty wrote:
>In this isolation a new language and context is formed
>that 'academia' may find naive.  Does being 'naive' allow an artist to
>'find' a sound or vision that may be ignored or overlooked by the
>'establishment'?

if the word naive means "unsophisticated" or "unaffected" then I would
consider academia to be "naive" and lacking in worldly experience...most
academia is steeped in its own juices and lacks the deeper sophistication
that real-life experience offers...(sidebar: Philip Glass has some
interesting views on this)...the self-referential isolation of most
academia is mind boggling...this is just my opinion based on working for a
company that spun out of Stanford University...
also, I just started an interesting book by CP Snow titled "The Two
Cultures" which deals with the conflicting cultures of science vs art (ie:
techies vs fuzzies)

to duul _drv: thanks for the Hoban quote!

KIM