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🔗Christopher Bailey <cb202@...>

5/29/2002 9:47:06 AM

> "Although our music is complex to the point that few
> people can listen to it, we certainly do not offer the
> world's most complex music, merely the world's most

Who does "our" refer to? Academic music, or just academic music at UCSD
(where I believe Puckette is based)?

> unlistenable music. To compare our music to that of
> north India by asking which is the more complex is
> simply ludicrous." -- Miller Puckette

Who asks this?

> awarded Ph.D. degrees, although art historians or
> theorists are; their output is not works of art but
> scholarly prose." -- Miller Puckette, 1999

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . . I wonder what one would call the "output" of
mailing lists. . . . .

🔗jpehrson2 <jpehrson@...>

6/13/2002 5:22:29 PM

--- In crazy_music@y..., Christopher Bailey <cb202@c...> wrote:

/crazy_music/topicId_1181.html#1181

>
> > "Although our music is complex to the point that few
> > people can listen to it, we certainly do not offer the
> > world's most complex music, merely the world's most
>
>
> Who does "our" refer to? Academic music, or just academic music at
UCSD
> (where I believe Puckette is based)?
>
>
>
>
> > unlistenable music. To compare our music to that of
> > north India by asking which is the more complex is
> > simply ludicrous." -- Miller Puckette
>
> Who asks this?
>
>
> > awarded Ph.D. degrees, although art historians or
> > theorists are; their output is not works of art but
> > scholarly prose." -- Miller Puckette, 1999
>
> Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . . I wonder what one would call the "output" of
> mailing lists. . . . .

***He might actually be outlining the distinction between PhD's and
other "doctoral" degrees that are considered less "academic" such as
the DMA... ??

J. Pehrson