Why should teetering anywhere remove the kick from music? Who cares where
the sound waves come from, or how the composer corralled them? At any rate,
I don't. I'm interested in how good they sound.

It's true that knowing how they were made does affect my perception of the
music, but I regard this as noise - I'm curious about how music is made so I
want to know how it was made, but I'd almost rather not know so that my
hearing would be colored only by the music itself.

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Covell 
To: Csound (E-mail) 
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 8:11 AM
Subject: FW: Recommended Xenakis?


>...discusses the UPIC software/tool he used for La Legende
>d'Eer. And of course Formalized Music is a major requirement for
>understanding just what makes Xenakis tick (though seeing the line where
>music teeters between a realization of complex systems and pure music is
>somewhat depressing as it takes the kick out of some of Xenakis' music for
>me).