I've said it before, and I'll say it again: my purpose is to write good
music, not derive the Nth root of Pi through sound.
m@2zo
www.thechisa.com
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Philip Sherburne wrote:
quoted 32 lines What do you folks think?> >What do you folks think?
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> I think, frankly, that you have just doomed the list to another week of
> half-assed amateur art criticism, pointless bickering, namecalling,
> irrelevant posts, and the inevitable return to the state of agreeing to
> disagree, with lots of "IMHOs" thrown about. Wells will probably say
> something witty, at least, and maybe Alex Reuterz, if he's even still
> around.
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> The point you raise is mildly interesting but I'd rather see folks go off
> and read some histories of conceptual art and not waste the list space on
> it. When you say, "It seems to me that some in the genre are going much the
> same way as modern art," it's so vague as to be entirely meaningless. Which
> modern art(s)? Grounding the debate on such shaky foundations is a sure sign
> that it will collapse into nothing but rhetorical rubble and puffery.
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> Read John Cage's "Silence," then talk about "emotion" vs "intelligence." Go
> see one of Carsten Nicolai's installations. Perhaps interacting with music
> on a level other than consumerism (buying CDs as entertainment product) will
> open up a different space for you.
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> Cheers,
> Philip
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