[microsound] musical structure

[Paulo Mouat]

What I meant was that they are not tied to what might be generally called
"western" (or other) music. It was precisely the "Towards a Metamusic"
chapter that I was thinking of when I wrote that. Perhaps a better word
would have been pan-cultural, given that acultural would be impossible.
//p
http://www.interdisciplina.org/00.0

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Charles Turner <vze26m98 at optonline.net>wrote:

> On Sep 16, 2009, at 10:06 PM, Paulo Mouat wrote:
>
>  My mention of Xenakis
>>
>
>  These works are culture-agnostic
>>
>
> Not completely sure of what you mean by "culture-agnostic," but IX's essay
> "Towards a Metamusic," which appeared in the U.S. edition of _Formalized
> Music_ (1971) and after, is quite concerned with cultural processes and
> products.
>
> Also, in the 1950s "comparative musicology" was quite an important area of
> study, now largely over-taken by ethnomusicology. The comparative outlook
> held out a notion of universalism: that all the world's musics could be
> explained/accounted for in one big theory. Viewed from that context, IX and
> Schaeffer's theories aren't agnostic, but simply participated in the
> universalizing trends of their time.
>
> Best, Charles
>
>
>
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