0100,0100,0100gabbling on about Re: Prix Ars Electronic 99 (Computer Music)...my Katharine was heard to mutter... 0000,7F00,7F00> .. > > > with respect too Alan, can't we all stop picking teams? I apologise if my post indicated that.. I didnt mean to... 0000,7F00,7F00You seem to assume > those critical of the PAE's stance this year don't know this music or have > any 'respect' for it. to me it seemed pretty clear that some of the posts writers had very little knowledge of the music that seems to have been the flavour of this years competition, just as I have very little knowledge of the competitions history and of recent years developements, but more than that little idea that this very music is considerably informed by the 'academic' music it was opposed to in the posts, which to me by definition blurs the boundaries/categories that are being referred to. 0000,7F00,7F00It's this kind of assumption that is a kind of > deliberate reverse elitism, no? well it would be if it wasn't clear to me what I wrote above. Look I might be totally wrong, I just don't think I am in all respects, most especially in regard to certain of the composers who were mentioned such as Aphex, Bernard Gunter, I've got all of the above bar Thaemlitz, saw Pierre Henry do his stuff just the other night in London (loud!) Id be very grateful if you could post an account of this...0000,7F00,7F00 > > if the competition is going to be honest, and is *honestly* going to be > all things to all men and women - in truth, I can't see another way than > by somehow making some division of categories based on different (not > better/worse) aesthetic intent. I agree but for the life of me considering the speed with which stylistic innovation is proceeding in the 'electronica' field, which Im more familiar with, I dont know how any competition could ever be relevent...actually to some extent I think the technologies and the way they are used by some composers makes near redundant competitions of this kind... based on entries under categories I mean. I hope one day I can write about stuff like this without having to put every second term I use in quotation marks!!! anyway, great to chat alan "Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds" Wild Bill Shakespeare.