quoted 3 lines that said, of course, I DO understand your reference to mindless music. It's> that said, of course, I DO understand your reference to mindless music. It's
> just sometimes I feel that the emphasis on traditional theory is just as much
> an arbitrary decision as anything else. Perharps just a bitter academic?
On the other hand, if more modern musicians knew about theory, they might
realize the hidden possibilities inherent in music and not focus so much on
being 'sound-alikes'. From Ives to Cage to Thaemlitz, music's most
successful experimental composers and artists have been steeped in theory,
which then gave them a framework to escape from.
The problem isn't that laptoppers don't use chords and harmonies and
progression in the standard way, it's that they don't realize that there are
endless techniques of composition besides 'sounds-good-loop-it' and
twiddling faders.
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