Re: [microsound] Money/Mouth

[pelagius pelagius <pela_gius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Michal Seta <mis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> IMHO, the idea of acousmatics is too intellectual for pop music.  1) most 
> (but not all) pop music isn't complex enough to require 'acousmatic' 
> listening (however, one could intellectualize it and/or create such complex 
> imaginary structures that... well that'd be missing the point of pop music 
> as entertainment)

I don't understand this dichotomy you're creating between acousmatics and 
pop music.  Recorded pop music (i.e. ALL pop music) IS acousmatic.  The idea 
of acousmatics seems to me to be academia's way of coming to terms with with 
developments in popular culture that took place around the turn of the 
century.

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