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Re: Contemporary "Classical" Composers

Author: Markus Wenninger
Date: 2005-02-01 15:42

Uhuuh..."comfort zones" really make me aggressive, there´s an urge then to use fuzz boxes, feedback and really altissimo registers...
So we´re still living in Rossini - country? - I see Your point, i´m afraid I have to agree. Considering the ritualized and heavily embedded structuralism in the musical world, the conclusion that nothing´s really shockingly new nowadays and everything has been said and done already has never appealed to me. Neither loose old battleships like Schönberg and Cage their unsettling and infuriating vectors, nor fail all-electronic pieces and solo woodwinds to stab the mediocre harmony-swingers right through the chest. Sorry for the crude metaphor, but I just came home from a enraging seminar, where postmodernism was feuilleton-style remolded to a general logocentrical idea of tradition and structuralism, and a ninecompoop did have the nerve to show that in the evolution of contemorary music.
Such scenes as You describe them, Alex, rather make me think about arranging some "rage against the machine" for sax quartett or the like, and just a few seconds of that dreadful Wiener tremolo make me madhatter home and put on some Xenakis full blast (I can see him saying, with a grin, that if it doesn´t sound like a jetfighter taking off next to you, it´s too soft; he said so to a friend and colleague of mine).
So we still wade through metaphysics...
MArkus

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