Showing posts with label Rainy Day Puzzle Fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rainy Day Puzzle Fun. Show all posts

Friday, May 1, 2009

Rainy Day Puzzle Fun

George E. Lewis published a brief article on improvisation and interactivity at NewMusicBox.com. But he forgot capitalization and punctuation! Can you help?? Example:
jazz put improvisation and interactivity back on the worldwide western table but retrospectivist aesthetics and survivalist shakers will be ignored by many even as residual institutional power manages to deselect some from this future of music others will decline discursive discouragement to create new sonic socialities that will inevitably suffer and benefit from corporate commodification
becomes
"Jazz, put improvisation and interactivity back on the worldwide Western table!" "But... retrospectivist aesthetics and survivalist shakers will be ignored!" By many, even as residual institutional power manages to deselect, some (from this future of music) 'others' will decline. Discursive discouragement, to create new sonic socialities? That will inevitably suffer—and benefit from corporate commodification.
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Nun of the Above

On my way to her first opera,  Hildegard,  on Friday night, I was thinking again about Sarah Kirkland Snider’s music, and how I might descri...