Re: John Cage recordings and what's in a name...

[ld thomson <heatshrink@hotmail.com>]

I'm opposed to classifying music at all.  Except perhaps for country 
music.  
I use the term "soundscape", although I'd rather say ambient.  
Unfortunately 
the E'd up ravers of the 90's have changed the meaning of ambient music.  
Although I have had ravers call what I do "chill-out" music.  I must say 
like that better than "looper music" or "loop music".  Than sounds too 
much 
like some new hot MTV term for a type of music that comes with its own 
required dress code.

As for Mr Cage...classical?  Maybe modern classical?  Or experimental.
Avant Garde?  Does it matter?


>From: lance glover <baumhaus@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: baumhaus@earthlink.net
>To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>Subject: Re: John Cage recordings
>Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 11:37:39 -0700
>
>Dennis wrote:
>
> > It makes me wonder where looper music will be classified in fifty 
>years.
>
>i can't think of anything more awful than the "loop music" section at a 
>2050's
>era equivalent of "borders" (okay maybe one or two things more awful)...
>
>i remember a discussion on the list about whether it's fair to talk about
>"loop" music as its own special category, somehow separate from the flow 
>of
>music culture in general...like, delay music, or sampled or cello or 
>harmonica
>music, as though the instrument or technique employed to create the music
>determines its typology (i stop this line of reasoning at accordion music,
>because it is indeed in a category unto itself :-)
>
>
>lance g.
>
>(on a philosophical morning?)
>
>
>


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