Re: [microsound] microsound as pop music

[lowercase <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

there is pure pop music?

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:07:20PM +0000, kyle jones wrote:
> A response to "Iamnobojackson"
> 
> "Microsound" may not sound like Top 40 radio, but a fair amount of the 
> music discussed on this list is packaged and marketed and distributed the 
> same way, albeit with less of all mentioned. 
> 
> Stockhausen was at SONAR last year, Radiohead sampled Paul Lansky, Edgar 
> Varese debuted Poem Electronique at the 1958 worlds fair. 
> 
> Show me the distinction between pop and academic. 
> 
> Who is purely academic. 
> 
> How is microsound firmly not pop music. 
> 
> 
> Ultimately this post is less of a vitriolic response, and more of an 
> imploration to explain the difference.  However, I don't think "fuckn duh 
> already" answers my question, or addresses the issue properly. 
> 
> Anyone? 
> 
> 
> Kyle 
> 
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