popular computer music : oxymoron?

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Jesse Kudler wrote:

>Case in point, I was recently told by my computer music teacher that I
>couldn't write one of these concert reports we have to do on the
>Pita/Fennesz/Pan Sonic show in NY because "That's popular music."  Leaving
>aside that he had only heard of Pan Sonic among the performers, I think it's
>interesting that this music gets deemed popular because the channels through
>which it disseminates and places where it's performed are more through a
>general subculture (clubs, mailing lists, etc.) than the academic route.  It
>definitely seems like it's a politicization of the presentation to me,
>especially since said teacher told me to instead write about a different
>concert on campus here which sounds much less "experimental" and relevant to
>the class but exists in an academic context.  Hey, if anyone can make
>experimental computer music and put out records, why do I deserve tenure any
>more than anyone else?

I find this statement VERY interesting and wonder if other list members
have similar expereinces? I am always tracking this chasm as I tend to live
in both worlds (the company I work for is a spin off from CCRMA @
Stanford)...
KIM




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; and i'd guess in most discussions on
>this list formal training wouldn't normally be over-valorized.
>


well, i wouldn't hold it against them.
however, i think that quite a few of the proponents of microsound and the 
like have had some affiliation with academics in the arts and humanities, if 
not specifically in music.



                 sony mao

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