Re: [microsound] pearls before swine

[Owen Green <owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

babilano wrote:

> Do you feel it matters if your music is not heard outside a small group 
> of cognoscenti?

I'm much more concerned with the activity than the artefact, so I'm 
relatively un-bothered about who comes to my shows, buys my offerings 
etc. compared to wanting to engage more directly with as wide a range of 
people as I can, especially non-specialists. I'm certainly not attached 
to the idea that developing a taste for 'difficult' music is, in and of 
itself, character building or some such guff.

> Can that ever change?

Does it matter if it doesn't? I don't think there's anything necessarily 
wrong with specialization. The problems, as I see them, that inform 
categorizations of music by 'difficulty' etc., are rooted in our wider 
musical / artistic culture, and the tendency for many people to be 
discouraged from participation from a young age.

> Or is it like expecting a monkey to appreciate the taste of ginger? 

I have no expectations about that :)

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O



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