Re: [tuning] Re: Digest Number 712 - electric Partch

John !
I really like this statement even outside of the context in which it is appearing.
Finally gotten a copy of Gilmore's book and been reading it and since Partch is such a fine
candidate for projected ones own subconscious contents, I thought i might throw out my own
to add to the "polytheism " of this personage. I believe that Patch's anti -establishment
views would have been sympathetic to the notion that the performing the works of dead
Composers is about as un corporeal as you could get. As a society , it seems much more
productive to water the budding flowers as opposed to collecting the best of Dead Leaves.
After all there are the "dreamers that remain".
Why is it as soon as Morton Feldman died everyone started recording him? Must our Composers be
Martyrs. If more people are alive today, than have ever lived (in total!) I can assume that
there are more great composers alive now than have ever existed. and i am not getting a chance
to hear them!

"John A. deLaubenfels" wrote:

> I do believe, however,
> that it is possible to fall into a trap, out of a sincere desire to
> propagate the authentic essence of a composer, to contribute to the
> death of his/her works by pinching off all innovation.
>

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
www.anaphoria.com