Re: [microsound] microsound as pop music

[Jethro <jethrokins@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Last comment ... would you even understand
> Stockhausen or Xenakis or whoever
> else it is you've placed on this pedestal if you
> DIDN'T have a 20-page CD
> booklet to explain their work to you?

They don't expect you to.  For example:

"Musical works have tended to become unique events,
which do have antecendents, but are not reducible to
any guiding schema admitted, a priori, by all; this
creates, certainly, a handicap for immediate
comprehension.  The listener is asked to familiarize
himself with the course of the work and for this to
listen to it a certain number of times.  When the
course of the work is familiar, comprehension of the
work, perception of what it wants to express, can find
a propitious terrain to bloom in."

-Pierre Boulez in conversation with Michel Foucault


Can't add anything to that! - J

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