A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music. ~ The avant-garde is flexibility of mind. — John Cage ~ ...composition is only a very small thing, taken as a part of music as a whole, and it really shouldn't be separated from music making in general. — Douglas Leedy ~ My God, what has sound got to do with music! — Charles Ives
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Response to criticism
The whole point of having gone through the polarizing musical years past is neither to begin new wars over turf, style, or substance, nor to accept everything as if we had no preferences, but rather to value practices alternative to our own while pursuing our own work in the most consequential manner possible.
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