Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (03/25/87)
Really-From: hofmann@nrl-css.arpa (James B. Hofmann)
>Subject: the harold budd interview #1
Look-it's really very simple. Once you decide that some-
thing is going to go out on a record, I don't think that
most people recognize just what democratic things recordings
are. Once the recording is done, it's not yours anymore.
You have absolutely no control over it, and I think that
that's a very good idea. It's a great idea-in fact, I think
that it is the future of modern music; the audience is going
to change what the music is going to mean.
What he says here heralds the downfall of traditional Western
music. Is it an entirely new (by that I mean, within the last
20 years) idea that Western music organization (authoritarian) will fall (and
rise again)? It seems to confirm some of the things I've been thinking (though
the enviroment discourages me) while the pundits and critics
are looking the other way, the thief is sneaking in the back
door and rearranging the way people relate to music and the
while idea of mass-marketed music. Take the ghetto mixers and
then the ciconne youth and you start to see where I'm coming
from. The Universal Mix. Ugh. Hopefully, this doesn't mean
one-world, totalitarian Mir, though.