Re: [microsound] microsound as pop music

[Joshua Schrei <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Pop music is for people who like
> tradition, who are fearful of risk taking and who are conservative, while
> art appeals to the mavaricks who live on risk and the difficult and the
> strange.

that is just plain silly. not all art takes risks, not all art gives you
something new; the beatles were pop, but their music at the time was
certainly risky and new.

Pop music tends to have certain sensibilities/structures that appeal to lots
of people... catchy chorus, repetitive vocal hooks, certain melodic
structures or chord progressions. but that doesn't mean that everyone who
listens to it is 'fearful of risk taking', it just means its easy to sing
along to. and it certainly doesn't make those of us who would rather listen
to something else mavericks and risk takers, it just means we have different
taste.