From: Whit Blauvelt <whitfb-AT-dorsai.dorsai.org>
Subject: Re: Avant-garde composers and thei
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 19:42:29 -0500 (est)


> eric writes:
> > I really think that the current forms of electronic music are the
> > avant-garde these days. 
> and
> > To do anything new with music these days
> > you have to have either two turntables and a mixer or a sequencer,
> > Zorn's pastiche notwithstanding.
> 
> I'd be interested to know how you reached this conclusion.
> Are you taking formal innovation to be the only legitimate kind of
> innovation?

Oh boy, electricity is the future. Right, and we're already in the world 
of tomorrow. Turntables are good, 'cause you get your hands in there - 
the reason synthesizers never really made it was they were too tech for 
most to get any feeling out of (Eno's dry intellect), so it went back to 
guitars, and sideways to turntables. Which all shows up electricity's 
limits: the thoroughly electric stuff is useless, only the hand commands.

Whit



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