[NewMusic] I see a baboon's ass

[Matthew Goodheart]

I find a number of microtonalists and just-intonation folk can be  
pretty fascistic as well. . . literally, a "return to the pure" and  
the "purging of all unnatural intervals". . .


On Jul 26, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Michael Henry wrote:

>
> After suffering through many of Kyle Gann's feeble-minded musings  
> for years while I was living in Chicago (he was "critic" for the  
> Reader where he bored us ad infinitum before moving on to NY), I  
> have to say....this one takes the cake.
>
> If there is a is a correspondence between neocons (aka fascists)  
> and music, I'd look to someone like Gann himself who's been carping  
> on this uptown vs. downtown thing for so long I sometimes wish I  
> could get a frontal lobotomy, in order to alleviate my suffering.  
> Or better yet, he could get one.
>
> I'll take Schoenberg's music (which no matter how many times I  
> listen to, I can always find something new to amaze me) to Gann's  
> insipid, uninspired, boring old baloney any day. Or night.
>
> Please, someone make him go away.
>
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> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:15:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tom Duff <td at pixar.com>
> Subject: [NewMusic] I see Serious People
> To: newmusic at music.mills.edu
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> Kyle Gann spots a correspondence between Neocons and Serialists:
> http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2007/07/color_me_frivolous.html
>
> -- 
> Tom Duff.  To find out a person's userid, ask him.
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> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:40:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Matt J. Ingalls" <ingalls at mills.edu>
> Subject: Re: [NewMusic] I see Serious People
> To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
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>
> man, babyboomer-composers really are holding onto that grudge
> against 12-tone music.. it must have been really bad back in the day..
>
> if gann's analogy and predictions are right, i guess we will be  
> feeling
> the same about the neocons 20 years from now..
>
> -m
>
>
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