bruce quaglia wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, rasmus ekman wrote:
> 
> > Then it's just a matter of cramming them together in an
> > interesting and entertaining shape... but with such first-class
> > material the sounds almost laid themselves side by side right away.
> 
>         I don't want to appear to be picking a fight....but,
>         there's something aesthetically bankrupt in the notion
>         that the compostional aspects of writing a good piece
>         of electro-acoustic music amount to nothing more
>         than coming up with good sounds and then "cramming
>         them together in an interesting and entertaining shape"...

Hehe, was I naughty? No really, form aspects are perhaps the
real problem. Whether we're synthesizing from scratch or battering 
samples, the classical instrument-originated forms like sonata,
cantata, the song or the jam, are not by themselves enough to
yield a framework for balancing and organising our little friendly
vibrations, etc etc. Maybe I'm bad as that, perhaps I understated 
the work involved slightly, but I intended not to talk too much 
about composition over this list. 


Regards,

	re