fiddlers diddlers noodlers and doodlers Jon3 5.xii.11

[Serial_Apologist]

Listening right now to the second set of this, I'm enjoying it more than I did when I was actually there. The front room at the QEH isn't exactly the best place for listening to intimate free improv, with it's odd, sandwiched in auditorium, though the place was full and very attentive, with very few walking out and no hostile asides: people seem to be much more prepared to accept abstraction as part of the musical landscape than even a few years ago.

[handsomefortune]

people seem to be much more prepared to accept abstraction as part of the musical landscape than even a few years ago.

think you're right.

[MrGongGong]

people seem to be much more prepared to accept abstraction as part of the musical landscape than even a few years ago.

think you're right.

Surely ALL music is "Abstract" ?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

except when it is concrete?

[Serial_Apologist]

Surely ALL music is "Abstract" ?

I would treat the concept of abstraction in music in terms of the breakdown of tonality and its support structures in Schoenberg's music and others' as analogous with the arrival of non-representational art at around the same time. Arnold and Wassily were quite good buddies, I understand.