Running Comments

[hofmann@nrl-css.arpa (James B. Hofmann)]

>Subject: the harold budd interview #1

    Look-it's really very simple.  Once you  decide  that  some-
    thing  is  going  to  go out on a record, I don't think that
    most people recognize just what democratic things recordings
    are.   Once  the  recording is done, it's not yours anymore.
    You have absolutely no control over it,  and  I  think  that
    that's a very good idea.  It's a great idea-in fact, I think
    that it is the future of modern music; the audience is going
    to change what the music is going to mean.

What he says here heralds the downfall of traditional Western
music.  Is it an entirely new (by that I mean, within the last
20 years) idea that Western music organization (authoritarian) will fall (and 
rise again)? It seems to confirm some of the things I've been thinking (though
the enviroment discourages me)  while the pundits and critics
are looking the other way, the thief is sneaking in the back
door and rearranging the way people relate to music and the
while idea of mass-marketed music.  Take the ghetto mixers and
then the ciconne youth and you start to see where I'm coming
from.  The Universal Mix.  Ugh.  Hopefully, this doesn't mean
one-world, totalitarian Mir, though.