From Brian Sent Mon, Dec 29th 1997, 02:33
From Brian Sent Mon, Dec 29th 1997, 02:33
First, Peter Hollo asks: > OK, just out of interest, how long has The Wire been around for then? Back in issue 124 (May 94 - the earliest one I've got), it says it's published 11 times/year, so that'd make it a little over 11 years old in 5/94, so approximately since the beginning of 1983. Then Oeivind Idsoe said: > Although you did pick some bad examples; musique concrete and > electroacoustic is hardly ever featured in The Wire, and they seem to > have a very hostile attitude towards composers within these genres. You're right, they don't feautre it much, but they didn't seem hostile when they did an article on Jerome Noetinger's Metamkine series of CDs or in the Pierre Henry article (altho Henry was a bit hostile towards some of today's electronic artists, but let's not get into that) or in some of the reviews that I've read (RLW's work _tulpas_, and some others that I can't remember right now, but can look up if anybody wants). I think The Wire's hostility depends on who's doing the writing/interviewing/reviewing, not on a specific genre..... cya brian -------------------------------------------------------- "The most dementing of all modern sins: the inability to distinguish excellence from success." - David Hare