On 01/09/99 14:42 the inimitable Tim Rhodes made this comment ‹
>I suspect that the boundries of what is available is what
Last time I was in a music store, or looking at what was available
online, my remark, both to myself and to anyone who was listening, was-
'Holy shit, what the hell _ain't_ here?'
The total onslaught of musics available these days is mind-boggling,
compared to the supply and diversity I grew up with- plus all the music I
_did_ grow up with is still out there.
More to the point of this thread, is what is being _played_ and what you
are hearing _in the general environment_. I listen to college radio in
Boston, IMHO one of the finest and most diverse radio markets in the
country, if not the world. I am constantly enlarging my scope of musical
interests and sources, and it is not because I am traveling, but because
the music is now here and available- from the Balinese Gamelan or a
Highland reel, to the most recent techno-pop from Italy or a trashpunk
piece from some guy's basement. The world, in short, is listenable. But
if I move out of this immediate multicultural enclave, I lose a good deal
of my aural world, and, yes, I am in pain without it.
I wish I could know it all, or at least hear some of all of it, but you
can't listen to all the music all of the time.
And, the finest music is the music of what happens....
>really controls the movements of this dynamic relationship.
Wade T. Smith
morbius@channel1.com | "There ain't nothin' you
wade_smith@harvard.edu | shouldn't do to a god."