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<DIV>A reply to Mary’s recent post</DIV>
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as Pat Zumst commented: Kazdin's book is just the cashing in of someone who
drove the band bus for years ... <U>nor</U> as Anne Marble commented that Andrew
Kazdin is just a bitter grouch.</DIV></DIV>
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size=3>Yes. And no. Kazdin’s book is noteworthy because he is one of the few
people who said that he had difficulties with Mr. Gould and he said so in
public. I reckon GG was not always an nice bloke (especially if you didn’t play
by his rules). These were not just the remblings of the bloke what drove band
bus. This book also shows a darker side of Mr Gould and if my memory is correct
Kazdin did not have a problem with GG as an artist per se but with him as a
human being, his manierisms and the fact that suddenly he was dropped like an
old shoe. This is maybe a personal thing, but I don’t like the idea of people
washing their dirty laundry in public and make a few quid out of it, especially
since at the time of writing one of the participants was dead and could hardly
defend himself (Mr Kazdin is also no longer amongst us for that matter). One
could say similar things about Mr. Oswald. I am definetly not in favour of
Hagiography, but critique in art and personality are two different things. Or
maybe I’m just stupid.</FONT></DIV>
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size=3>This madness circulating about Gould predicting or creating "the mash-up
culture" is such a load of red bulging bullocks that I swear I shall become
really truly obscene on the matter. GET A GRIP. <BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Hm, I like the terminology of red bulging bullocks <IMG
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Yes, to an extent as to the same extent as Stockhausen and
Pierre Scheffer *could* be seen as the great-grandfathers of electronic music
and Marshall McLuhan predicted the internet, but only so far, and this is where
Mary might be right. Yet there is no denial that his experiments with
contrapunctual radio (the opening trio to IoN springs to mind and please ask
yourself when you last heard such a thing as “contrpunctual radio”) *could* be
seen as steps in that direction, his mentioning in an interview with John
Culshaw that he could have released 24 different versions of the same Beethoven
Sonata and his essays on recording etc. The fact that he muses in one of his
articles on how much fun it would be to be able to enhance the listening
experience by hearing for example Mahlers 1st with the first movement from
Bernstein, the second from Walter and so on lets us shrug and create a playlist
in iTunes in a few seconds. So to an extent Mary is right, but if Sony gives us
the opportunity to feed some wav files into a multitrack digital audio
workstation and The Foundation might provide a sort of kit for us to tinker
with, I am all for it because there is a certain GG feel to it not even Mary can
deny.</FONT></DIV>
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