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[Jeremy Tolsma <ccws@xxxxxxxx>]

> and yeah, charlie parker said "learn the rules so you can break them" or
> somesuch but i don't think that has to do with experimental music..

I think you're right about that.  Charlie Parker invented bop by blowing
chords to rhythm.   If he didn't understand chords or rhythm he wouldn't
have been able to do that, however the style he created eventually
appropriated itself into one of the most standard formulatic techniques in
jazz.  Perhaps the lesson to be learned here is that if your experimentation
is based on the standard musical lexicon, any techniques you pioneer are
likely to be adopted into standard music as time goes on.  Thats the whole
basis of progression.  Even under the most scientific methodology,
experimentation is still required.  Rocket scientists spend a lot of time
working out ballistics equations but they're not altogether sure whats going
to happen until they launch the rocket.

 in fact
> by definition experimental music is outside of the traditional rules of
> songwriting/classical theory, it has no relationship to them whatsoever.
>

I would disagree with that for the reasons stated above, I think there may
be two main forms of experimental music.. 'progressive' (ie taking standard
techniques and expanding or subverting them), and 'free-form', which tosses
all previously pioneered technique out the window and aims to forge
something entirely unique.