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Originally Posted by goodridge_winners
i dislike avant-garde. i dont think it is music. that is just my opinion though. other people may find structure in it. but i dont think that nonchalant whistling while driving a car recorded in a stunt drive facility is music. Seriously. Sound effects are sound effects. music is music.
now in regards to atonal. no its not dead.
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Avant-garde is a relative term, there's nothing concrete about it at all. Rite of Spring was avant-garde when it premiered, then Boulez was, then Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Avant-garde has no meaning, as does "atonal". I agree with Gardener, I hate that word.