Re: [microsound] * off -icmc

[caleb~k <caleb.k@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

'serious' is/was a term used last century to describe composition 
from within the academy...
   what used to get called classical music in lay terms...computer 
music is serious in this sense and in that fact that they use scores 
and so on and so forth
<++note musicology relies heavily on the score...>
it has nothing to do with hip-ness
  but about background and training...
      .how many micro.musicians have training from the conservatorium here?



 Dale Lloyd <dkl37@xxxxxxxx>
>  In your e-mail, there seems to
> be a bit of segregation, using the word "outsider" and "they are after
> all serious composers." What is being implied here? A distinction of "hip
> computer-geeks" from "unhip computer-geeks"? (If I'm not mistaken, I
> thought I saw some academic composers on the interest-description of this
> list). Besides the stirrings of an "us vs. them" vibe, there was the
> implications that non-academic composers are firmly the source for
> innovation. Is this really all that important? Can we not just enjoy
> ourselves with what we ceate or listen to without feeding into some kind
> of segregation
> trip?