Stirling Newberry:

>It might surprise many people on this list how many performers of
>accessible pop music have tastes that run to the abstract or avant-garde.
>This includes people who, in their own field, are quite conservative.
>The popmeister spends his life mining a very narrow vein of acceptable
>for money, and is looking for "something else" quite often.  Many have
>dreams of doing things which are "experimental".

That's true.  Many pop artists still have that kind of "dreams".  Mostly,
they don't know anything or very little about what "experimental" is in
XXth century classical music, but they like the tale (Stockhausen at
the cover of some wery well known pop album...).  Of course, there are
exceptions (not all of them are ignorants), but it's also true that,
according to some pop artists, "experimental" means, for example, clusters,
some ambiental noises, or even an 11th chord.  Cage (due to obvious
reasons) is a perfect candidate for guru among these people.

Pablo Massa
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