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What Is Creative Music? san francisco bay area monthly publication for experimental/improvised/ noise/electronic/freejazz/ outrock/21st century music and sonic art April 2001 McDonald's), which by continually prof- invaluable, yet deeply conservative musi- What is Creative fering the latest product, erode our cians who, by failing to acknowledge and attention span and seduce us with address the musical issues of our time, Music? ephemeral crap. remain doomed to conserve and per- by Christopher DeLaurenti chance propagate - not create - the music “Destroying the past is a losing Paradoxically, the 20th century has of the past. game; the past cannot be destroyed; it been the most radical and most conserva- merely wears out.” tive musical era in history. No one can dis- Creative music is not conservative. Virgil Thomson, American Music Since pute the astonishing legion of radical Composed or improvised, creative music 1910, page 80, Holt Rinehart 1971 compositions that have transformed the grapples with the unresolved musical context, identity and essence of music as issues of our time: polyphonic and poly- Describing creative music as adven- well the inexorable profusion of that temporal rhythm, the movement of turous, exploratory, and experimental most conservative of musical forms, the sound in space, the social context of per- decisively throws down a gauntlet. song. Forgive me if I refer to song-based formance, re-defining or attacking the "What is creative music?" is a qualitative musics such the blues, rock and roll, pop, traditional parameters of music (form, question which suggests that those not R&B, hip-hop, et al., as "rock" but since melody, harmony, etc.) from moment to making creative music are not creative. these genres all suffer from statically moment, the identity of musical instru- No one wants thousands of dollars and deployed periodic rhythms and the for- ments, and soon. Elaborating my years of hard work invested in a groovy mulaic prominence of words as well as abridged list would devour hundreds of world music record to seem laughable the predictable repetition of sections, pages; to define them here might suggest and irrelevant, but asking qualitative timbral aggregates, dynamics, and pitch a Canon Law of Creative Music, which questions invariably tramples someone's sequences, the rubric of "rock" suffices. might only be useful to me. Creative feelings. Rock has been accused of being the music music stands in essential opposition to of old men, but too many old men and the social and sonic strictures of our time. Some may complain that delineating old women have made music that out- Creative music is the subversive, creative creative music is elitist, but if you are shines their younger colleagues. These spark cupped furtively in one's hands, a reading this in the United States, count conservative musics are really the music shield against the deaf and dumb bluster yourself among an elite who enjoy the of old minds in thrall to old ideas. of society. benefits of paved roads, disease-free san- itation and plenty of food and shelter for Rock musicians are the Pat It is foolish to proclaim one form of you to purchase, scrounge, or steal. An Buchanans of the music world. Pat music as universally superior to another, elite is a small self-selected group who Buchanan and other conservative politi- just as it is outrageous to expect someone place their interest to be above and supe- cians of his ilk, despite being sincerely to choose between conservative or cre- rior to those outside the group. Most patriotic Americans, persist as unwitting ative music. Adventurous musicians, elites exact a substantial monetary or at fossils of an earlier, anti-queer era. Yet in unlike many of their conservative com- least a sartorial toll for admission, but all forms of music, we need antiquarians: rades, should be conversant with all entering the world of creative music Mozart on period instruments in a small forms of music. I believe that compared merely demands an ability to listen, sus- hall, the reunited Temptations at the to conservative music, creative music tain attention, and challenge your own local Bijou, punk rockers cavorting on a offers a deeper, richer experience. After conceptions of music. Like any pursuit of beer-glazed stage, and for lack of a bet- hearing Igor Stravinsky’s Movements (or an uncommon pleasure, the quest to ter term, "heritage" or "world musicians" even The Rite!), Alice Shields’ experience and understand creative music who perpetuate traditional music. Transformation of Ani, Sun Ra’s The Magic is not easy; indeed it is a lifetime struggle Unfortunately some of these artists need City or any among a mile-long list of cre- against cultural forces (such as TV and to be reminded who they are skilled, ative music, most mainstream music sounds laughable, irrelevant and emo- tionally feeble. No prose can prove my point. Exploration and experience of all music is the only path. Christopher DeLaurenti is a Seattle-based composer and improvisor. http://www.delaurenti.net/ has more of his writing and music. With Alex Keller he per- forms as rebreather, improvising live elec- tronic music from the digital glossolalia of sabotaged consumer electronics, home- brew circuits and obsolete devices. Meridian Music: Composers in Performance proudly presents Tom Bickley performing original compositions for recorder and electronics Friday, April 6, 2001 8pm Meridian Gallery 545 Sutter, San Francisco (between Mason and Powell) $10 / $5 students&impoverished artists 415.398.7229 [email protected] http://www.meridiangallery.org thetransbay Creative Music Calendar [email protected] 1502 8th st. oakland, ca 94607 please send us your street address to to have the transbay delivered to you! 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