Re: [microsound] cultural bias

["Gary R. Weisberg" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am also reminded of the story told (I believe) by John Cage, either in his
book 'Silence' or another one, where he and/or Morton Feldman were at
a modern art museum, and they overheard someone say, in response to one
of the art pieces "This is ridiculous - why even I could do it!" To which one
of them replied "But you DON'T". 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kim Cascone" <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound_list" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 6:29 PM
Subject: [microsound] cultural bias


>> "Unless I know who's making it, how am I going to know whether it's
>> good music or not?"
> 
> that comment could be (and has been) deeply dissected and analyzed
> it reveals nicely the cultural bias instilled in the populous with  
> regard to the arts
> both from a spectator view as well as a curatorial
> to wit:
> 'music for an art opening? how about DJ blah!'
> 'sounds like a wannabe Brian Eno'
> 'he's Japanese so his noise is the real stuff'
> (all things overheard in my travels -- and there's more where that  
> came from)
> 
> it's a shame that most people can only decide if something is 'good'  
> via their cultural biases
> and all too readily toss out the 'unknown' as being of lesser quality
> a pity the number of really amazing artists who toil away in obscurity
> 
>  
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