Re: [microsound] "Academic" computer music?

[Massimiliano Viel <mail@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>These are certainly reasonable interpretations of the word 
>"academic" but it's a third, rather pejorative usage that I was 
>reacting to. As one who passed through the hallowed halls and then 
>chose to remain outside them, I've usually used that word (and I 
>spell it "akademic") to refer to something didactic, doctrinaire, 
>ossified rather than as a neutral reference to music history and 
>education.

yes, academism (akademism) is something both like a tribute to the 
lack of creativity (encouraged by "rigorous" and mechanical 
proceedings) and a way to engage oneself in institutional career 
(here, we are in the domain of the Peter's law).
alas, this is a innaturally natural tendence of nature, that I would 
rather call "sclerosis"... the battle against it is the battle for 
life, as we see even in antiakademic composers like Stockhausen or 
even worse in Donatoni...

>Xenakis, who was a marvelous teacher, did so as a sort of renegade. 
>His time at Indiana was a particularly good example of how he was 
>viewed (and shamefully treated) by the musical establishment.

Xenakis had also the "unlucky" idea to live and work in france at the 
age of the "boulezisation" of france music culture... in Paris you 
have IRCAM and CeMAMu, you guess who is receiving the main statal 
founds?

massimiliano viel

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