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On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:13:50 -0500 (EST) Ian Guthrie Yeager
<iyeager@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Thanks to Dale and Robert for that interesting info....													
Yer welcome!									
										
> Some might argue that the 60s was really the beginning of the end of
> any traceable linear trajectory for music, and now, everything is
> completely fragmented. It's like that Babbit article "Who cares if 
> you
> listen?", where he argues that music is like any scientific 
> discipline,
> where the cutting edge is no longer understandeable or interesting 
> to any
> but a few specialists. The average Joe doesn't understand new 
> developments
> in mathematics, physics, or "serious" (serial) music, he argues. I 
> hope
> it ain't necessarily so.																		
I think the important thing is that the people providing the "cutting
edge" in whatever medium, keep providing it because there will always be
an "average Joe" who will eventually want more than he's been given from
the mainstream resources and will want to understand new developments.
The "cutting  edge" people are a necessary spice of the human salsa. Some
like their salsa spicey, others like it mild. 					
> I was just talking to a freind and asscociate the other day, and he
> posited that the main artistic concern of our time is really 
> distribution.
> How is any longer possible to compile a linear history of cultural
> activity when the sheer volume of information is so fantastically 
> immense? 

First of all, the very nature of "history" is a somewhat selective
excercise. Historians select what they want to chronicle, either out of
misinformation or lack of awareness. Something always seems to be left
out, so in light of that, a "history" of certain current cultural
activity is possible. Though, I think that a truly comprehensive
chronicle would be very difficult for nearly any cultural epoch, not just
the more current ones.  
										
> Obviously this entire mailing list is in some sense "specialist" in
> nature, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's unfortunate that 
> those
> interested in sonic challenge, exploration, innovation, and 
> fascination 
> comprise a minority.  
										
Yes, but a necessary minority that paves the way for the future
mainstream.
										
>Anyone have any recomendations on magazines relating to experimental
> electronics? The Wire is great and all, but I need more, damn it.

ND magazine. Also, there used to be Audion out of the UK, I'm not sure
it's around any more.

Dale Lloyd - Like Ulysses is now available.
http://overheard.homestead.com/lloyd.html   				
New release by DASL - Zen Tread now available
http://overheard.homestead.com/zenT.html
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