Clarification: MAINSTREAM as opposed to EXPERIMENTAL.
--- On Mon, 2/14/11, Matt Stevens <mattstevensguitar@btinternet.com> wrote:
From: Matt Stevens <mattstevensguitar@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Why does mainstream seem more like , downstream these days?
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Date: Monday, February 14, 2011, 9:32 AM
Agreed - to be honest there are so many channels of media from blogs to podcasts to twitter etc its hard to define what the mainstream is anymore apart from Pop Idol type contests
Matt Stevens
www.mattstevensguitar.com
On 14 Feb 2011, at 14:29, Petri Lahtinen wrote:
Latest love of mine was Rihanna's "Man down".
I've always loved Meredith Monk, Nat King Cole, GG Allin, Exploited, Dark Angel etc.
I've never seen the reason to diverse the streams.
There's something good in every stream.
-Petri-
2011/2/14 Paul Richards <paulrichard_rocks@yahoo.com>
Yeah, but the title of the e-mail says "mainstream". Who in the mainstream is doing anything even like Pat Metheny did with his earlier band Pat Metheny Group in so far as instrumental music with varying "world music" influences? I don't see (or hear) anything coming down the pike.
--- On Mon, 2/14/11, Doc Rossi <docittern@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Doc Rossi <docittern@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Why does mainstream seem more like , downstream these days?
Date: Monday, February 14, 2011, 6:27 AM
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
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