TUNING digest 805

>From: eric@cmlab.sfc.keio.ac.jp (Eric Lyon)

>How does he do it? Somehow Brian Mclaren manages
>to goad me into defending John Cage, a composer who
>has never been in my top 20, and who, I agree with Brian, is
>probably overrated. Nonetheless, with so many legitimate
>ways to criticize Cage, Mclaren manages to find some bafflingly
>inane ones instead.

You know, I remember occasionally reading something here
(usually uttered in Brian's defense after a particularly
bilious attack) that things might be different if we only
*knew* him instead of the occasionally redlining rant
generator who posts under his name from the splended
isolation of the Oregonian leftcoast.

In a similar vein, one must suppose that things are
exceptionally bad when one sees the estimable Mr.
Lyon rise to Mr. Cage's defense. Having met and actually
hobnobbed some with Eric, I can guarantee that seeing
him resolutely defending John against the McLarenist
screed would bring a smile to your face. It amuses the
heck outta me....

Hey, wait a minute - come to think of it, *I* don't
even like Cage all that much, myself. And, come to think of
it, have I programmed Cage on my "pimping for High
Modernism*" radio program more than Eric's patented
electroacoustic rollercoaster rides through the darkness?
[pause to fire up web browser]. Nope. They're even over
the course of the last programming year. Wait! I'm actually
playing the noncanonical Partch recordings, too. Whoops!

With regards,
Gregory

* http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~gtaylor/RTQE.html

_
I would go to her, lay it all out, unedited. The plot was a simple one,
paraphrasable by the most ingenuous of nets. The life we lead is our only
maybe. The tale we tell is the must that we make by living it. [Richard
Powers, "Galatea 2.2"] Gregory Taylor/Heurikon Corporation/Madison, WI



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