Subject: Re: electroacoustic music defined
From: Alistair MacDonald (a.macdonald@rsamd.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 05:59:32 EST
>>> mintaka@dircon.co.uk
>Even the classical world has people like Steve Martland.
hmmm... You think he's radical, political, known in circles outside classical music, drives Radio 3 listeners to political action?
>And fine art has a stable full of people who are politically annoying. Sometimes they even
>make the headlines, so people actually get to hear about them.
Who? Britpack shock tacticians? Name some names! Tell us about the (non-EA) music & art which has raised your political consciousness.
>But not EA. EA is terribly polite and terribly obscure and never seems to>
frighten anyone.
Sorry, I don't find Steve Martland scary! OK, he has said some pretty angry things about the British musical establishment...
Interesting that nobody in this discussion wants to name composers/pieces that they think are representitive as radical or especially dull. The loudest voices & grossest generalisations seem to reflect a paucity of listening. Maybe I'm wrong.
There are plenty of pieces of EAM I do find disturbing (Wishart: Red Bird; Dhomont: Foret Profonde; Chion: Requiem) or politically thought-provoking (much of the work which gets the acoustic ecology tag: Westerkamp, Schryer...; Åke Hodell: Mr Smith in Rhodesia http://www.fylkingen.se/fr_18_3.html ).
Can we talk about real music, not generalisations? Pete Stollery can start by slagging off my ooeuvre.
Alistair
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