Hello David,

Don't you think that *experimental* music is not appropriate?
Indeed, in electroacoustic compositions, the music is made by trying and
trying again until the composer admits it sounds all right. I really think
this way of composing is close to the scientist experimentation technics.
An other "way" of composition is to write the music down and (make it) play it
later on. In this case, there are two steps: the composition itself and then
the rehearsal. The rehearsal seems to be experimental as well but, in this
case, the composition itself does not follow the experimentation rules. Can we
say it is experimental music?

I know, you meant that the technics were experimental. It means the synthesis,
the way of doing or playing it, the new axioms (predefined rules...) you gave
to yourself.
Or if you meant that the composition itself was experimental, I think we are
always experimenting someway when composing. We are experimenting our ideas.
In this case, all Arts are experimentation(s).

Sot I am a bit disturbed when I speak about experimental music because we
never know when it is and when it is not. We should use other words to avoid
the mixing between the composition and its result, between the scientific
experimentation and the artistic experimentation.

Yours                                                       Olivier.

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Olivier Pasquet -- APU Cambridge -- op101@mercury.anglia.ac.uk
http://www.sinclair.anglia.ac.uk/~op101.student.cambridge.anglia
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