Minimalism conference, Aug-Sept, Wales UK

[Sean]

I've already booked up:

http://www.bangor.ac.uk/music/events/minimalism.php.en

[jochanaan]

Sounds interesting!  Are you giving any papers?

[Gurn Blanston]

Like the way you both kept your posts very short....

[uffeviking]

Gurn, Luv: Your avatar and the quote above it are longer than the two gentlemen's posts! 

[Sean]

Hi jochanaan, I might like to have submitted something I guess, but I only just found out about it, and not enough time just lately to prepare; in the future hopefully!

[karlhenning]

It seems aesthetically contradictory, Sean, to put too much effort or preparation into a paper on Minimalism, yes? 

[Sean]

It seems aesthetically contradictory, Sean, to put too much effort or preparation into a paper on Minimalism, yes? 

Well yes, but I say it's contradictory to put too much effort into a paper on any music really: the intellectual never locks horns with the aesthetic. I'll be doing my bit to fight the corner though against whatever derisory contingent there may be.

[karlhenning]

So your own exercises in derision have been only in order to Know the Enemy, eh, Sean? 

[Sean]

I have vast stockpiles of derision, and can spew more venom and trash more stuff with glee than most.

[karlhenning]

Well, now, that's what I call unexpected 

[BachQ]

I have vast stockpiles of derision, and can spew more venom and trash more stuff with glee than most.

Yes, we agree that you have vast stockpiles ...........

[BachQ]

I have vast stockpiles of derision, and can spew more venom and trash more stuff with glee than most.

............ And your ability to spew remains unsurpassed ..........

[The new erato]

This is a conference where a single paper will be presented a multiple of times with only one word changed between each presentation I suppose?

[some guy]

The conference has already happened.

What I'd like to know is, how was it?

Sean?

[bhodges]

On his blog, here are a couple of posts by composer Kyle Gann, who attended.  I believe in the second post, the last photograph may show [cough, cough] someone of interest. 

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2007/08/where_never_is_heard_a_maximal_7.html
http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2007/09/the_minimalist_invasion.html

--Bruce

[lukeottevanger]

On his blog, here are a couple of posts by composer Kyle Gann, who attended.  I believe in the second post, the last photograph may show [cough, cough] someone of interest. 

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2007/08/where_never_is_heard_a_maximal_7.html
http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2007/09/the_minimalist_invasion.html

--Bruce

Marvellous stuff! Thanks, Bruce!

[Guido]

Yeah cheers!

[paulb]

I've already booked up:

http://www.bangor.ac.uk/music/events/minimalism.php.en

how or why does minimalISM ever get included on a  CM forum?
Anyone know?
The subject  belongs at the backroom diner.

Mini means small, mal means bad. ISM is something like "run from the plague".

Thats  makes sense.

[uffeviking]

If you class minimalism the same as the plague, then, Paul, why do you expose yourself to it here at GMG, a classical music forum?  Just run from it, as you suggest, and this is done by scrolling past any reference to minimalism, or avoid a forum such as this, where people have a different opinion of minimalism.

[karlhenning]

Well, certainly that other thread was grist for the Diner, well done, Lis!