read w/ caution - elec. music and theory?

[mayan]

I can't think of anything more subjective and more continually shifting than the perception of quality in music. While, yeah, the world loves performers and entertainers, the creative artist is often despised for nailing down something that won't be in the popular kin for another fifty years. Stravinsky caused riots. Thelonious Monk was derided and despised by Louis Armstrong and most of the country.

It's an old, old story. Personally, while there is much in and out of the mainstream that I listen to, I personally like pieces that are revelatory...that teach me a different way to "hear" and/or infuse me with a sense of the Sublime. Scott Joplin was revelatory. So are some turntablists who totally blew my little world apart. Terry Riley. Monk...

There is also the phenomena of having a piece or type of music "yield" itself...like a lover. In other words, I can listen to a type of music, a piece or an artist for years and not "hear" it. Then...whomp...all of the sudden something shifts and -boom- my world flies apart. What had been profane suddenly becomes sacred.

I don't know what this has to with electric music theory...but play on, dudes!