Re: [microsound] death of monoculture

[Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Marinos Koutsomichalis wrote:

> A friend of toured and gave masterclasses in various countries in Asia 
> last year, and he told that even in music schools people had never heard 
> of some modern composers of vast importance.

i'm writing this facetiously: if they hadn't heard of them, then they 
can't've been so vastly important, could they? this sentence smacks of the 
very idea that 'freedom of choice' is supposed to be opposed to. if you're 
really into freedom of choice, then how do you support the idea of 
'composers of vast importance' in the first place?

to stop being facetious, i do believe in 'composers of vast importance'. 
but i think to support this, or to make this meaningful, there has to be at 
least some level of monoculture (perhaps monocultures is better: a limited 
number of different monocultures, with fractal-like edges but overlapping 
or shared cores.)

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damian stewart | +31 6 5902 5782 |  damian@xxxxxxxxxx
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