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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
Indeed! No list for me, most of the ones I like get covered by other posters pretty quickly. I really wouldn't put Lou Reed in a list of modern composers, not just because he isn't, but also because Metal Machine Music is not a 'composed piece of music', and certainly not enough to gain the 'composer' in question such a tag. I love it and all, but John Cale (a trained composer) said that to make something like that you just have to listen to shortwave radio out of tune and record the results onto tape. He might have been bitching, but there is some truth in there. Oh, I forgot to mention how much I love Luciano Berio's music.
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Well, you're probably a bigger VU fan than me, so I know you're not dissing him. Nonetheless, now that it's been vindicated by a touring string ensemble playing Metal Machine Music, I think the validity of it as a real electronic music composition stands pretty clear to anyone that wants to see it. Cale's comments could easily be applied to 2/3s of the electronic music composers, so yeah it does sound like the classic case of a classically trained musician being pissed off by less academic musicians using technological short cuts. The argument is worthwhile in that it creates a couple different schools of music that both produce great work. Cale, however, is ever the reactionary (which doesn't take away from my loving a great deal of his music). I remember a Melody Maker interview where he summed up hip hop music in the single word of "rubbish". Right now I'm listening to Dalek who combine hip hop with post-MMM type noise, and I'm sure he'd hate it.