Music Head Wrote:please don't call Revolution #9 music
Of course it is; what it's not is acceptable music--a very different thing indeed. Karlheinz Stockhausen was mentioned but there's this whole movement in music: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te << Frankly I think all this shtuff is enough to gag a maggot but I don't deny that it's music...Maybe somewhere, sometime somebody can pluck themes and elements from this to produce what we can more readily grasp. It took jazz 15+ years to come to terms with hip-hop but now that it has, some significant stuff is being made. The early modal jazz players had a tough time finding a gig or anybody who would even give a good listen. The most horrific man who ever lived's corpse might have provided a viable organ or two for a needful good person.
I am not saying anybody here is close-minded--the key word is accessible and that varies radically * with each of us.
*"radical" in the root sense--"That which is at the core-fiber of being"
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR