On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:05:15AM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: > Now if you really want to get into it, check out Slonimsky's "History Of > Musical Invective", it's a compendium of the bad reviews received by > famous composers. My favorite quote was from Max Reger, responding to an > unhappy reviewer, something like: "Dear sir, I'm sitting in the smallest > room of my house, reading your review. I have it before me now, but soon > it will all be behind me." (Sorry, I don't have the book here.) Wonderful. If the review that started this thread shows anything, it would be the eclectic (good) and divided (less good) nature of the LAC crowd. One could wonder if the LAC would ever have been associated with electro-acoustic music at all if the first conference had not been organized by the ZKM, but IMHO it's a good thing. As to this year's works, I must admit I was somewhat disappointed. There were some interesting ones, but also much less inspired stuff. Somehow many composers started using similar noises: scraping on metallic objects, flocks of fladdering things, etc. At one point I was really thinking: someone must have posted some SC3 classes for these, and now everybody is using them... Much of what I heared was purely noises. There seems to exists within the community of EA music composers a fear of traditional musical elements: rythm, melody, harmony. There is always some structure in time, but it's very often just the same: building up to a climax. -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano è questo !
