I saw a fantastic performance of Morton Feldman's Why patterns? last night.
― pizza pizza and cult jam (crüt), Friday, 27 April 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
awesome crüt!
i think feldman's reputation is pretty secure cuz he is still regularly performed/discussed in a way some of the darmstadt crowd probably aren't
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 27 April 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
Balderdash.
― ogmor, Friday, 27 April 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
is there a classic piece making the case for the avant garde, or experimental music/listening more widely?
― ogmor, Friday, 27 April 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Cares_if_You_Listen
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 27 April 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
feldman is, seems to be sui generis in a way many of the less heralded europeans like maderna or barraqué or pousseur aren't, but there's a lot of interesting stuff there
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 27 April 2012 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
B-)i'm looking for an appeal to the uninitiated, contra babbit
― ogmor, Friday, 27 April 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
you mean like a tom service but not like tom service? idk i cant think of anything offhand
theres an amusing piece with daniel barenboim in yesterdays guardian making the case for boulez as a worthy companion to beethoven, conductors and performers are usually better advocates for the unfortunately term 'new music' than writers (thinking of ppl like ricardo chailly or ian pace)....else you could all the way back to adorno &c
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 27 April 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
My best friend from elementary school is a big deal avant garde classical composer. In fact, he just was awarded a guggenheim fellowship.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 27 April 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://youtu.be/JrBJdIvRwz8
this is nice
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Friday, 27 April 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
love the sentiment of "Who Cares If You Listen?"
― seapunk run. run punk run! (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 April 2012 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
it wld render the noxious pseudo demography of audience ish that's so common kind of redundant
― ogmor, Friday, 27 April 2012 11:36 (twelve years ago) link
it's like a counter to "the plain reader be damned"
― seapunk run. run punk run! (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 April 2012 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't like the Grauniad piece because it only really seeks to paint a picture of contemporary classical as a sort of hip sidecar adjunct to pop; it's full of "b-b-but the ideas of composer X can be heard radiating through to the work of Guardian-reader-friendly-rock act Y"-type getout clauses.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 27 April 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that aspect of it reads like marketing rather than criticism.
― sarahell, Friday, 27 April 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
I think Service's piece is great and only briefly does it touch upon pop culture
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 27 April 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link