I need some catching up! (avant-garde classical music)

love the sentiment of "Who Cares If You Listen?"

― seapunk run. run punk run! (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 April 2012 06:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

it wld render the noxious pseudo demography of audience ish that's so common kind of redundant

― ogmor, Friday, 27 April 2012 11:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's like a counter to "the plain reader be damned"

― seapunk run. run punk run! (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 April 2012 11:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

I didn't like the Grauniad piece because it only really seeks to paint a picture of contemporary classical as a sort of hip sidecar adjunct to pop; it's full of "b-b-but the ideas of composer X can be heard radiating through to the work of Guardian-reader-friendly-rock act Y"-type getout clauses.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 27 April 2012 12:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, that aspect of it reads like marketing rather than criticism.

― sarahell, Friday, 27 April 2012 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

I think Service's piece is great and only briefly does it touch upon pop culture

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 27 April 2012 23:48 (1 year ago) Permalink