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Re: [microsound] microsound as pop music



I can't understand someone who sees aesthetic value on being "difficult"...

If Stockhausen, Xenakis, Cascone or anyone whose work did not meet any sort
of public recogniction ,despite a mega-buck marketing campaign, I would
seriously doubt the artistic merit of such work.

Art was meant to comunicate something, wasn't it??  Not communicating is
failure , not reason to be proud.

Beni



----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrei" <andrei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] microsound as pop music


> To those who argue music labeled as "pop" has more to do with
> socio-politics, commerce, etc. rather than simply the (easy to
> digest) musical content, I'd like to offer a question:
> Do you think any piece by Xenakis or Stockhausen, or Kim Cascone, would
> ever have a chance of making the Top 40(000) with enough major label
> corporate backing ?
>
> Someone mentioned the "pop" success of Gorecki's Symphony No.3. Well,
> listen to that piece: it's all simple, pretty & repeating tonal
> melodies/harmonies and it's full of pathos.
> I'd like to see his Lerchenmusik for clarinet, cello & piano, "Recitatives
> & Ariosos" have that kind of success.
>
> Andrei
>
>
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