Don't know Alfie Noakes, know Edward Elgar and I've been following Anthony Braxton for over 40 years ! I've heard of Oliveras but not familiar. It is humanly impossible to be familiar with every music maker ...this Music Discussion Group is just that ! All are welcome to share their music so others can discover it !!!!!! I cannot stay with one genre, type, format, label, category, whatever we want to call it in this genre crazy world of music today in 2011 !!!! If I did I would soon become bored and depressed !!!! This MD keeps me interested in music old and new !!! I don't know every artist over the past 50 years so I can get exposed to Clifford T. Ward, Jarre, Blackfield, Finn Brothers, Avett Brothers, Blue Nile,and Riuchi Sakamoto...etc. by listening to recommendations by our members ! How can I know about Armin van Buuren if no one mentions him ? I was curious as I saw his name come up several times on a live concert list !
Thetyari Estévez Wrote:The system will not allow me to reply privately to you Gryphon, so I've modified my reply and put it here:
The future is happening now, but it's not here.
Case in point (thanks for the reminder Steve-O):
A couple of months Armin Van Buuren celebrated his 500th A State Of Trance radio show. This was a huge deal -- five weeks of parties and shows on five continents (and yes I caught a lot of it over the web and in person). Yet the single biggest global music event in any genre this year passes by without a mention here at all.
How could I expect with this situation to be able to discuss new developments in grime, drone, Creative Commons and all that entails, witch house (which isn't a dance genre at all), dubstep -- or any number of things going on right now, dance music or not? This is not just limited to what's happening in dance music. Would anyone know about eigenharps, continuums, slabs, or Linnstruments other than me? How about organisational developments in modern scholarly music, like Pauline Oliveros' "Deep Listening" concept or Anthony Braxton's "Ghost Music"? The issue here is very likely lack of interest in digging these things up as far as I can tell.
The best experience that I'm sure everyone here has had to some extent that illustrates this: imagine the late 60's, early 70's -- amazing new albums and singles being made weekly. You look forward to what's happening new this week, eagerly go down to the record shop to check out what's fresh out of the box, that you couldn't buy earlier for lack of it existing. Contrast this with meeting someone who is very heavily into music, but knows absolutely nothing other than Alfie Noakes or Edward Elgar -- not dismissive of new rock music, just can't discuss it with you out of no knowledge. This is the vibe I get here. Basically the climate's changed radically and I'm not sure I see anyone here has noticed.
This is not a criticism -- just noting that there's no synch with what I'm looking toward ... but thanks for the kudos .... maybe we'll cross each others' paths on the net elsewhere.
The ultimate connection is between a performer and its' audience!
