Re: [microsound] microsound as pop music

[Michal Seta <mis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here I am talking to myself:

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:13:38 -0500
Michal Seta <mis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:31:01 -0700 (PDT)
> Jethro <jethrokins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Also, I can't think of any pop music that tends to
> > justify itself intellectually - as a matter of fact,
> > it tends to be anti-intellectual.  Sure, it might be
> > smartly written, but you don't see liner notes go on
> > and on with extra-musical justifications with any
> > record that sells over 20,000 copies, much less
> > 2,000,000.
> 
> Do you mean the more there is in the liner notes the more  intellectual music is?  So then, where's the music?
> 

I think Bach's music is highly intellectual.  Did he ramble about writing fugues?  Nope.  He just wrote a bunch of them in all keys to illustrate the art of writing them.

../MiS