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i am sorry that i have to have to confess to be a musicologist.
so answer = 0 = wrong.
and in fact: i am not the only one, at least not in berlin, koeln, vienna...

while i agree to the center of your comment: musicology doesn't come very
close to electronic musics. even electronic music from the academic branch
coming out of those really, really old, historical studios is mostly
discussed by the composers themselves, not by musicologists. which is
actually ok, because obviously they are the only ones to understand the
technology involved. musicologists usually don't take dsp-classes.

but this branch is covered ok compared to non-academic electronic music.
people writing and talking about the latter mostly don't know too much about
how to dig into formal aspects of music, so they avoid it. very often when
music is discussed, the whole talk is about who makes it, why it is made,
which social etc. circumstances influenced it and so on, garnished with some
descriptions of a sound layer or two. again, like in the academic branch,
the makers of this music seem to be the only ones to be able to discuss the
_music_. most other outcome is basically cultural sociology. that is fine,
but not enough. this world would be a better one if more musicologists took
dsp-classes!

golo