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It’s not so much that I’m interested in experimental music, but that I am interested in the phenomenon of people making music, and what the results signify to other people. The music I value most is forward-looking, self-aware, unattached.

I want to hear an answer to the question of what is next;
I want to hear a different answer every day;
I want each answer to repeat the question.

By the time we are sure of what is next, it has already come and gone.

Jeff Atwood posts on Coding Horror about comments – why discussion is an important and essential part of the blog format.

In the past I’ve skipped over comment threads on the web, favoring articles, which I considered to be the “real content.” I’m pretty late on this one, I realize, but I’m discovering now that comments (uh, discussion) are where it’s at. They constitute the conversational aspect of the medium. Y’know, the part where you talk to other people, rather than spilling your thoughts in a criticism-free environment. Hey hey.

For more than half a century we’ve seen incredible advances in sound technology but very little if any advance in the quality of music.
- Glenn Branca, The End of Music

That any active musician can say with a straight face that there’s been no good music since WWII is pretty mind-boggling.

I mean it’s one thing when Wynton Marsalis laments the loss of his precious Jazz Music. OK, he’s a preservationist. It’s his job. Whatever. But Glenn, come on man, you’re writing these, like, symphonies for 100 guitars or whatever, playing this new shit, right, and now you’re busting out with no-good-music-in-the-last-fifty-years? Seriously, what are you listening for? There is so much out there. A bulleted list of interesting post-war musics would be beyond the scope of this blog post.

An “advance in the quality of music.” What the hell does that even mean.

Now look what you’ve done, see, I’m all riled up.