music?

Matt Picone EMAIL HIDDEN
Sat Oct 11 23:55:18 CEST 2008


Gert van Santen wrote:
> Matt Picone schreef:
>>> The war-era composers, from 
>>> Webern through Stockhausen/Boulez/Xenakis, all derived their aesthetics from an 
>>> association between wild random explosions and terrifying drama. That's why 
>>> their music is generally so inaccessible. What's interesting is the exceptions, 
>>> when even an alien sound vocabulary crosses time and culture and inspires. That 
>>> stuff should be sent out on space probes.
>> I regret that you could not have been at any of the M at stock events, 
>> Tony... Next time, I think we need to create music for a space probe.
> 
> So... will there be a next time...? (he asked... hopefully... :-)

Yes, I thought that was settled? 2012.

-m@



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