Re: OT rant from hell (was: AirFX)

["space module" <spacemodule@hotmail.com>]

 >In a message dated 10/31/2000 6:43:50 AM Central Standard Time, torn 
scrawled:
 >
 >> or, maybe music educators will learn to stay closer apace w/'culture
 >> curves',
 >> & begin teaching turntablism (! & looping !) in schools.....
 >>
 >
 >for this to happen, music education graduates would have to learn it... 
and
 >colleges would have to teach it... and people who have learned it would 
have
 >to be willing to actually BE teachers.
 >
 >anyone?


Then a different DT said:

Given my experience in music education, the only way this wil happen in
music academia is for the artists top turn white, die, and stay that way
for a century or two.

Having been in music academia I see where you are coming from.  However 
not 
all schools (like the one I went to) are stuck in pre-Schoenberg music 
pedagogy.  Seems like I have seen a few places that teach DJing technique 
alongside studio production even though I think they were more at the 
community college level.  I wonder if the MIT Media Lab (or any other 
school 
of their caliber) has looked at Turntablism or real time looping?  I 
wouldn't be surprised to see Christian Marclay or DJ Spooky teaching 
someday 
either.  Both of them seem to have a knowledge of the "Classical" 
aesthetic 
being taught in music schools.  Anyway, even if it is taught, I don't 
think 
that you will find the innovation coming out of the classroom.  Most of 
Musical Academia is a ghetto for self agrandizing people who are unknown 
outside of their own community working on either the music of old warhorse 
composers or obscure unknown composers.  Too many rules!  It seems like in 
music school, there is this requirement to re-invent the wheel, that is 
learning everything since Palestrina onward before you can try out the 
new(er) ideas of today.  Forget about learning anything non-Western or 
modern in most music schools.  Fundamentals are important, but I just 
can't 
see how relevant it is to learn all of the old religious based classical 
music if your intention is making modern noise.  I remember how freaked 
out 
my advisor was when I played a piece I composed for Electric Violin, 
Effects 
and Jamman...

my 2 cents on this digression...

Nick
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