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Originally Posted by gms5287
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.
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I knew that someone would get me up on that one. I meant avant-garde in todays context. Particuarly (and i said this),
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nonchalant whistling while driving a car recorded in a stunt drive facility
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seems to be the norm when people compose 'avant-garde' music TODAY.
Sounds are Sounds. Music is Music.
Ordering sounds from A to Z to make a soundtrack, is not music. It is a sound effect reel.
Ordering notes from B - Q, back to A and down through to 9...that, though it would sound odd, is music...because there would be defined pitches.