Just read the Trevor Wishart interview in the St Vincent issue (#366). This for me has been the most poignant piece of the year so far, and his 'music' ain't half bad either going by the "Fanfare And Contrapunctus, Imago" EP on Spotify (not on YouTube). Music in inverted commas as it's really just a chain of sound effects.
I was dubious of his "sonic art" analogy to begin with. But when he explains it - thinking of sound as absent from the context of art if you think about walking around an installation, and the temporal processes created by focusing on a melody of a track, for example - it's quite interesting as a context in itself. "...people identify themselves with a particular style of popular music, dress, and so on - musical taste becomes, for a few years, a badge of identity. This is exploited by market forces and so it becomes very difficult to promulgate any new kind of music - much more difficult than persuading people to buy a new kind of book, or eat a new kind of food, he declares".
I was dubious of his "sonic art" analogy to begin with. But when he explains it - thinking of sound as absent from the context of art if you think about walking around an installation, and the temporal processes created by focusing on a melody of a track, for example - it's quite interesting as a context in itself. "...people identify themselves with a particular style of popular music, dress, and so on - musical taste becomes, for a few years, a badge of identity. This is exploited by market forces and so it becomes very difficult to promulgate any new kind of music - much more difficult than persuading people to buy a new kind of book, or eat a new kind of food, he declares".