Re: [microsound] microsound as pop music

[The pHarmanaut <pharmanaut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I definitely didn't mean that microsound is pop as in Top 40, but it
> certainly has more connections to "pop" music than say the music of
> Xenakis or Stockhausen. I think it's fair to say that a lot of the artists
> within the "microsound" scene have connections to the pop music world.
> More direct connections than Xenakis or Stocky every had.

This isn't accurate in regards to Stockhausen. Stockhausen had a very direct
connection to a number of "pop music" artists in the high point of SF
psychedelic culture. Stockhausen cited live performances by Jefferson
Airplane and their little collage snippet, "A Small Package of Value Will
Come To You, Shortly" from 1967's AFTER BATHING AT BAXTER'S as an influence
on "Hymnen". Plus, he taught members of the Airplane, the Dead, and the
Mothers of Invention in his classes at the University of California at
Davis, in 1967. Certainly, a lot of Stockhausen's writing on the Aquarian
Age and such is vintage psychedelic mysticism, as well.

Wasn't "Hymen" all about popular music, in that a country's national anthem
is about as popular/populist/pop as music can get?

Of course, in 1967, the Airplane, the Dead, and the Mothers might not really
be considered popular music ... that would fall to the Andy Williams, Pat
Boones, and Tom Jones group.

The point, though, is this: what's the USEFULNESS of keeping Xenakis,
Stockhausen, Lansky, etc. shielded from popular culture? Are they so badly
in need of being kept clean?

-=Trace