alexhhhh’s Reviews > Infinite Music: Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making > Status Update

a counterargument to Milton "who cares if you listen" "music doesn't care about your feelings" Babbitt

"assuming there's a medium for the sound waves to propagate through, namely air"

at times the over-elaboration of variables as a means of fulfilling some idea of scientific precision is unintentionally funny and more often simply tedious

musical objects as describing systems (imperfect, imprinting)

limited configurations of continuous variability

"One cannot step twice into the same river"—What assumptions or values are behind the desire to "freeze" a work as a contained, repeatable entity made up of sounds?