Re: [microsound] experimental music

[Ryan Stratton <ejlif@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "jon" <transmit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] experimental music


> yes, i suppose it's difficult to imagine a chemist embarking upon an
> experimental process without focussed regard for the result.  then again,
> we are talking about experimental music here, not experimental science,
and
> they are (for the most part) very different lines of thinking.  while i
can
> appreciate conceptual "art music" (if i'm in the mood, anyway), i am
> infinitely more interested in aesthetic experiments.  besides, how many
> completely pathetic/clichéd "art" concepts have you seen being thrown
about
> music lately?  so many projects would be infinitely more credible without
> the need-to-be-simultaneously-intellectual egocentrism.
>
> don't get me wrong, though.  i'm not dissing the slick intelligentsia who
> manage to pull it off.
>
> ciao,
> jon.
>
> dust vs stars >> http://home.pacific.net.au/~transmit
>
>
> 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
> > >
>
>
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