Re: [microsound] a new primitivism?

[Andrei <andrei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Ian Guthrie Yeager wrote:

> It seems to me that timbre has been a neglected element in the development
> of western art music, and perhaps in other art music traditions around the
> world.

What about orchestration, which is all about exploiting different timbral
qualities ? And the search for a "tone" has always been important for
classical musicians. And then there's the more recent extended techniques
tradition which is all about the search for new sounds and exploration of
timbre.

Andrei