I am not able to provide any programmes for (This Music) or any statistical law governing the incidence of marks on the writing paper, or anything of the sort that might clarify my vision of (This Music.) Nevertheless, I should like at least to attempt to stake out the parameters of the concept. What is meant is a type of music which has discarded all forms which are external or abstract or which confront it in an inflexible way. At the same time, although such music should be completely free of anything irreducibly alien to itself or superimposed on it, it should nevertheless constitute itself in an objectively compelling way, in the musical substance itself, and not in terms of external laws. Moreover, wherever this can be achieved without running the risk of a new form of oppression, such an emancipation should also strive to do away with the system of musical co-ordinates which have crystallized out in the innermost recesses of the musical substance itself.

Adorno, Vers une musique informelle, p. 272-273

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"it should nevertheless constitute itself in an objectively compelling way, in the musical substance itself, and not in terms of external laws"

Does it rock or doesn't it rock?

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Dixon often spoke of (and imposed) "moratoriums." Did you know there is a moratorium on the triad until 2056? Yup.

What say we have a moratorium on paper in music? How about music is now only trafficked in the form sound. Oral tradition. Aural tradition. Ear is everything. No more paper. No more flow-charts. How does that make people feel?

And if that were to happen, would it be a step forward or backward? Would music thrive or would it suffer?

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