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re: experimental music



At 03:05 PM 1/30/02 -0800, you wrote:

I always thought that this(experimental music) was a
strange kind of 'experiment' - when to test the theory
the result did not matter..

paul



--- anechoic <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > >but i think in the context of an oeuvre of works
 > loosely
 > >umbrella'd as "microsound", this music operates
 > under the context/tradition
 > >of "experimental"
 >
 > "experimental music" (the traditional meaning) is
 > created as a result of a
 > composer testing a theory...the process is of more
 > importance to the
 > composer than the output and usually the
 > experimental composer doesn't
 > really care if the output has aesthetic value or
 > not...most microsound
 > would not be considered "experimental" in the
 > traditional sense of the term

Traditional experimental music? Isn't that an oxymoron?

-a little birdy
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