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Re: [microsound] future in our ears



Hi

( 03.01.23 15:57 +0000 ) Bernhard Living:
> Yeah - music as always been prophetic - and has always been there to 
> bring in the avant garde.

i don't think this is true. brahms, palestrina- these guys were looking
backward for inspiration. there are probably other examples from other
traditions as well. artists are people [too]; some forward looking, some
backward looking [some nice, some assholes, ...].

> Beethoven was way ahead of his contemporaries in literature and the
> visual arts

what do you mean? how do you measure progress? weren't all the artists
at that time just making their art as a creative response to being
alive? some we like better now, some we like less now.

> John Cage was using electronics and cut-up techniques almost forty
> years before visual artists got around to using multimedia.

um, cubism is a cut up technique.

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