Re: [microsound] Westerkamp (was: electronic improv)

[Dale Lloyd <dkl37@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:48:59 EDT "virginia maryland"
<hotlinegrrl@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> [Hildegard Westerkamp]
> 
> >I think we get disappointed with
> >an artist because we build expectations before listening to a work 
> we
> >haven't heard before. When we listen without expections we tend to 
> take a
> >piece on it's own terms and not our own.
> 
> Ah, but I'm measuring her by her own standards.. not by my 
> expectations..
> 
> That's why I said her pieces "undo themselves"...
Ah, and who has set these standards? Perhaps a piece that Westerkamp
thinks is her best may be different than your idea; and a piece that I
think is her best may be different than both of you all together.

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