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

[Doc Rossi <docittern@gmail.com>]

I'm with Andy.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:22 PM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

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