It could have been funny once, but with all his "music" basically the same -
the joke quickly loses the comedic part, leaving behing nothing but the
joke....
RT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Stetson" <cstet...@smith.edu>
To: "David Rastall" <dlu...@verizon.net>; "Roman Turovsky"
<r.turov...@verizon.net>; <chriswi...@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 8:41 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: The reason we play lutes
Chris,
Well, we don't really know that the composer is deadly serious, do we?
Perhaps the fact that we're taking it so seriously is the joke, and
he's laughing at us. Maybe the composer is looking for signs of life,
and laughter was the hoped-for reaction. I thought it was pretty
funny. Perhaps, then, we can all laugh together?
Have we noticed that almost all of the world finds both lutes and
polyfoam musically boring and irrelevant, and therefore ignores both?
(the other) Chris.
>>> <chriswi...@yahoo.com> 10/5/2009 8:09 AM >>>
David,
That's the biggest problem of all with this sort of stuff - dead
seriousness. I forced myself to listen to all of this and found that
there were actually a few interesting moments buried in there between
vast canyons of superfluousness. Unfortunately the composer obviously
took himself so seriously that he seems to believe that we're going to
be so impressed by his command of erudite compositional techniques that
we'll feel honored to absorb anything he casts our way - even 7 minutes
of noises. No doubt the composer would be happy to lecture us about
the mind-boggling array of chance operations, algorithmic constructs or
complex pre-compositional grids he used to generate the sonic events of
"Manifest." Now, don't we feel stupid?
Chris
--- On Sun, 10/4/09, David Rastall <dlu...@verizon.net> wrote:
> From: David Rastall <dlu...@verizon.net>
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: The reason we play lutes
> To: "Roman Turovsky" <r.turov...@verizon.net>
> Cc: "Lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> Date: Sunday, October 4, 2009, 10:25 PM
> On Oct 4, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Roman
> Turovsky wrote:
>
> > EM revival in general was a reaction to this type of
> (neo)modernism.
>
> In that context, anything is possible. I knew a
> college professor
> back in the day who was a composer. He called his
> work "radical-neo-
> post-diatonicism." The weird thing was that he was
> deadly serious
> about it. That's really how he wanted to be
> known! I have enough
> trouble with Charles Mouton, without having to contend with
> neo-styro-
> HIP.
>
> Best,
>
> David Rastall
> dlu...@verizon.net
> www.rastallmusic.com
>
>
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