(OT, sorta) microtonalism & "new" timbralism...strategy/ies

In a message dated 10/13/99 10:08:01 PM, rmcgowan@apple.com wrote:

<<in America, that popularity
begets more popularity -- and that is always detrimental to things which
maybe be equally good or better, but just don't have a "90 percent market
share".>>

yep,... "The Free Market does not make for Free Minds. The Market
always dictates." The inherent cultural conservatism of "the
Mainstream" is fueled by "marketing" & "hype."

<>

Subversion of "popular" music forms is one strategy... Another somewhat
related strategy is the continued "appropriation" of noise (recommended
reading: 'Noise' by Jacque Attali).

"Music is a herald, for change is inscribed
in noise faster than it transforms society....
Listening to music is listening to all noise,
realizing that its appropriation and control
is a reflection of power, that is essentially
political."
- Jacques Attali

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