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Re: What's experimental?
i've been listening to PANDORA a lot lately.....upon hearing music that years ago sounded "experimental" to me, now sounds commonplace often self-indulgent.....perhaps not the best example: in the 70's i was driving back to pittsburgh from california (really fast, no speed limits) through the arizonia salt flats.....a clear night, stars above and reflected off the flats, a 360 degree star fest and in front just a thin line of road with the white lines doing their strob thing in the headlights.....a new EMERSON LAKE AND PLAMER tape blasting out of the speakers.....OMG!!!!!.....perhaps this was not experimental music but i had not heard anything like this before and was totally blown away, much like hearing morton sobotnic's "silver apples of the moon" for the first time (a pivitol point in my music life).....i no longer have these tapes or records but PANDORA not only allows me to revist these past listening experiences but also to hear a ton of "new', "experimental", whatever music.....what i think i am trying to say and perhaps it's been said before (i love redundency, it's the only way i learn) is, TIME takes the gleam off of "experimental".....rainer's pointing out of cage's idea "experimental" is not knowing how things are going to turn out was very thought provoking for me.....is a piece no longer experimental once it has been played.....once i taste the hamburger covered with lime jello and coconut, the experiment is concluded (please don't try this at home).....perhaps communication requires an agreed upon vocabulary, we somehow have to establish a common ground from which we hope to understand one another.....maybe this can not be done.....getting back to ELP, after listening to TARKUS for what seemed like 2 hours the other day i flew to my puter and hit the next tune button, a big case of been there done that, I WANT SOMETHING NEW-FRESH-TOMORROW!.....:)m
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