The Future always was Yesterday

Freely improvised and non-academic electroacoustic music {as}[by] urban folk[s] ~ part 7

from: Emergence at the frontiers and in fringes & trenches of contemporary music

In his contribution “Necessity and Choice in Musical Forms: Concerning musical and technical means and political needs” to [RJ], Chris Cutler gives the following four characteristics of the ‘Folk Mode’ of human music making (which he considers in dialectical opposition with the eye (notation) based bourgeois ‘Art Mode’):
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