[NewMusic] Braxton on FOX

[Jon Raskin]

I agree completely, when I was we took a field trip to the symphony where one of the works was a music concrete peice with 6 women playing vacuum cleaners.  Didn't know what to make of it at the time but it change my perceptions of musical instruments.  Playing Charles Ives music for a concert band opened my ears as well.


----- Original Message ----
From: ted brinkley <tedbrinkley at sbcglobal.net>
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 2, 2006 8:48:14 AM
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Braxton on FOX


maybe too IAJE for your taste, but HS pedagogy is so
stultified....anyone getting HS kids even a little
exposure to different way of organizing and thinking
about sound is to be commended, and commended again
for putting it on TV.  me, i wrote the guy an email
offering my approval.
  i hope it is not a little known secret that HS kids
are the perfect cohort for exposure to all kinds of
cool guerrilla shit under the guise of "band" or "jazz
ensemble"......

y'all talk about building audience (and personnel
pool)---HS teaching may be potentially fertile soil
for "outreach".

--GC

no accident this happened in the cleveland area.

--- andrew raffo dewar <freemovementarts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just got this link to a high school band playing
> Braxton's Comp.58 on 
> FOX tv...
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/pgnuh
> 
> It's weird - like a repertory style performance,
> down to the trumpeter 
> copping the concept of Wadada Leo Smith's solo on
> the original 
> recording (though not even coming close to
> reproducing its beauty) 
> instead of finding his own way into the music...
> 
> As much as I love the idea of kids playing this
> music, this approach is 
> just too IAJE for my taste. Also, in this
> performance and how it is 
> filmed there is the added stereotype reinforcement
> of experimental 
> music as incomprehensible, with the band falling
> apart and camera 
> close-ups of the bewildered kids.
> 
> Andrew
> 
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