Re: [microsound] Re: 4/4's for neanderthals

[soren-microsound@xxxxxxxxxx]

I'm not really talking about experimentalism per se, more just, well,
variety.  99% of the music out there is a ripoff of something that's
been done before.  In this context experimenting can simply mean trying
a new combination of styles instead of copying a
style/sound/genre/whatever.  I think most musicians/composers/etc. don't
realize they're directly copied something they heard, it just "sounds
good"...

Simplified:  Somebody comes up with a new idea and does a decent job at
it.  Somebody else takes the idea and does an incredible job with it.
Now it's time for a new idea...for example, bach...he didn't virtually
anything he did, but he did it better than anybody else.  Good, that
should be the end of baroque music, nobody needs to make it anymore.


Soren

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:44:48PM -0700, ph!L @ c e n t i b e l wrote:
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> >This isn't to say open rhythm is beter than fixed...just that most of
> >the variations with fixed meter have been used and there's not much
> >experimentation going on anymore...
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> yeah but what's so great about experimentation anyways? I kind of know
> the answer to this, but I'm asking the question because it foregrounds a
> presupposition which is worth discussing.
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