[NewMusic] Dying Industry...(sic)

[Sarah - 21 Grand]

> I think that undercurrent is still there, if not
> overtly then at least in the subconscious history of
> the music - the whole collective improvisation
> (emphasis on COLLECTIVE) non-hierarchical,
> non-commericial aspect of things.

... What if, for example, one
subsumes their individualism to the group discourse, and over the course
of the performance one simply does not play. Not because of any
Cagean-silence ideas, but rather the voice of the group simply does not
need the assertion of that individual- it would alter the course too much
or the collective statement has been made. It's a different conception of
the role of the individual in a group of improvisers. I haven't really
heard that kind of thing, or not in a long time, at least.

- MG, did you skip the Marco Eneidi Animal Farm thread?

sl