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Re: Why does mainstream seem more like , downstream these days?
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Matt Stevens
> <mattstevensguitar@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> New experimental music is happening all over the world right now - kids
>> messing with tech - they don't care about definitions of the Avant
>Garde.
Per Boysen wrote:
> I'm with Matt on this.
sure :-)
but what does it mean
1) Experimental as in the genre named by Cage in the 1950's
2) Experimental as in the music is in some way an experiment. When
I wrote a classical guitar piece in rondo sonata form *that*
was certainly an experiment...wasn't very groundbreaking tho'.
Varese was messing with tech in the 1950's
> "Genres" are obsolete.
so far the "nothing new since the 1950's"
hypothesis stands.
andy