Guh... yaPUSSYclaaaaaat man I ax you....
Heard a lot of experimental music in my time, encouraging fellow lunatics, former fellow-students and the like. Hasn't on the whole been either enjoyable or exciting. Just a bit now and then.
I suspect that stuff is consciously exclusive, really only fun for the musicians who have some idea of what they are doing, but can't be bothered to make it marginally accessible to the paying punters. Are artists entitled to be arrogant? Not many and not often if they want people to take them a bit seriously.
I really prefer performers to goddam artists. A chap who can play tunes on a saw-blade with a violin bow, or by tapping his cheek with a table knife with a microphone between his teeth, or on a jew's-harp, has an actual accomplishment. An artist is his own work of art and if you don't get it, tough t**** squire there's the door...
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