On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Kevin Ryan @ wrote:
quoted 11 lines <<its a way to explore new sounds.> <<its a way to explore new sounds.
> and that is the essence of electronic music.>>
>
> I'm sure many producers agree with that, but here's one who doesn't:
>
> "Remember, I didn't turn to the electronic medium for 'new sounds.'
> Nothing gets as old quickly as 'new sounds.' It wasn't for the
> superficial titillation of sounds. It was for, above all, music time, the
> way you can control time. There's such a difference between being
> [...]
> -Milton Babbitt, on his 1963 electronic piece Philomel
This is a pretty common attitude among academic composers who turned to
electronic music because they believed that it would be the ultimate
medium for the expression of the ideals in 12 tone music (or even n-tone
music, as in Easley Blackwood's LP of etudes in different tuning
intervals). I personally think these guys missed the boat in a big way
and one ought not necessarily take everything they said too seriously
(c.f. the Stockhausen interview link posted here recently), but then again
I also think that most of the Columbia/Princeton stuff is useful only for
insomniacs.
-rob
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