the "heartfelt" rationale is utter dinosaur bs, pretty much exactly mirroring the elitist anti-pop music pseudo-intellectual music criticism of adorno and horkheimer during the 1940's.
anybody heard of jay greenberg? he's a child prodigy who entered Juilliard at age 11, and if you haven't heard of him, you should remember his name. his instructor at Julliard said of him on 60 minutes, "We are talking about a prodigy of the level of the greatest prodigies in history, when it comes to composition. I am talking about the likes of Mozart, and Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saëns." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Greenberg he went to elementary school (very briefly) in chapel hill, nc, where my best friend had the pleasure of teaching him. we hooked him up with cubase, and burned him cd's of stuff like dmay, c2, john beltran, detroit escalator, etc. he didn't fall in love with it, but he took a serious interest in techno, synthetic sounds, and he makes all his music using cubase -- it is only later performed by orchestras. that's good enough proof for me. this is beside the point that classical music is not typically rhythmically complex to begin with, so the comparison to 4/4 16 step quantizing is totally off the mark to begin with. at one point some classical students from duke were invited to one of my music theory classes at unc, and they were all blending classical music with modern production techniques, sampling, dance rhythms, polyrhythms, etc. i can't say i liked any of what i heard that day though On Jan 10, 2008 7:52 PM, The Archiver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do you need to Troll? > > This list like most mailing lists has its Highs and Lows, all you are doing > is contributing to the Lows...
