Re: Why does mainstream seem more like , downstream these days?

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

> 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