an irresistibly corrupting influence on music

"Nurturing our composers in the university, as we do in
the USA, has worked negatively on our music. The
harried, flustered composition professors are under
pressure to keep proving themselves worthy of keeping
the academic flame, competing with scholars on grounds
of rationality, linearity, and alphabetizability. This
has had an almost irresistibly corrupting influence on
our music." -- Miller Puckette, 1999

--- In crazy_music@y..., "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@e...> wrote:

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>
> "Nurturing our composers in the university, as we do in
> the USA, has worked negatively on our music. The
> harried, flustered composition professors are under
> pressure to keep proving themselves worthy of keeping
> the academic flame, competing with scholars on grounds
> of rationality, linearity, and alphabetizability. This
> has had an almost irresistibly corrupting influence on
> our music." -- Miller Puckette, 1999

***Hi Jeff!

A lot of this is dying out now, though. There's a whole new "wilder"
crop in there now, many places anyway...

Joe Pehrson