THIS IS THE QUOTE THAT MADE ME LAUGH THE LOUDEST!

On the other hand, the university is the best place for musical exploration
and collaboration. It is also the best monastery we have now for retreating
from the world of moneymaking to the world of music-making.

20,000 DOLLARS+ A YEAR TO GET AWAY FROM MONEY MAKING.
Say one thing outside the system and your scholarships go out the window.

Pitch wise and rhythmic wise i consider north indian music more complex.
university music is just more garbled, there is a difference

"X. J. Scott" wrote:

>
> >> "Although our music is complex to the point that few
> >> people can listen to it, we certainly do not offer the
> >> world's most complex music, merely the world's most
> >
> >
> > Who does "our" refer to? Academic music, or just academic
> > music at UCSD (where I believe Puckette is based)?
>
> I'll post the link to the whole article later -- he
> speaks on behalf of american academic/university music.
>
> >> unlistenable music. To compare our music to that of
> >> north India by asking which is the more complex is
> >> simply ludicrous." -- Miller Puckette
> >
> > Who asks this?
>
> It's a rhetorical device -- he means to say that it is
> self-evident that North Indian music is more complex
> than American academic music.
>
> He brings this up in the context that an apparent goal
> of academic music is ever increasing level of
> complexity & that the complexity pursued is of an
> structural and theoretical nature, rather than musical.
> He points out that North Indian music is more complex
> and yet is still musical and listenable, whereas
> American academic music is unmusical and unlistenable,
> as is evidenced by the lack of interest of audiences
> for western music outside of those who have been
> conditioned through the grist mill of academia. This
> contrasts with the far more sophisticated and complex
> North Indian music which finds wide and appreciative
> audiences.
>
> >> awarded Ph.D. degrees, although art historians or
> >> theorists are; their output is not works of art but
> >> scholarly prose." -- Miller Puckette, 1999
> >
> > Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . . I wonder what one would call the
> > "output" of mailing lists. . . . .
>
> BINGO!!!
>
> -- you win the prize --
>
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