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Experimental Music

🔗Gary Morrison <71670.2576@...>

12/2/1996 6:03:37 PM
Brian M. Says:
> Lyons' logical error is his assumption that he can misuse and abuse and
> warp and twist the word "experimental" at will.

Uhmmm... Well, Eric Lyon didn't fall into that "Bengal tiger" trap; he just
quoted a bunch of people who did.

"Experimental Music" is a common term for music based upon unusual ideas. If
indeed that's a misguided usage of the word "experimental", then it'll have to
go down as a common but misguided colloquialism rather than a bad choice of word
definitions on Eric's part.

Now I'm not suggesting that it's necessarily a good or bad term - just
common.


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