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"...
>         [snip]

>         A painter mixes his/her pallette...AND THEN THEY PAINT!
>         Anyone with me on this?

Not sure why these two notions need to be in opposition. Every person's
idea about music is bound to be different. I think what we're missing
here
is that the digital medium allows us the flexibility to manipulate sound
in
any way we can conceive and then some.

Benevolent anarchy, folks -- it's the only way...

cliff