Music Concrete

I am now begining to enjoy utilizing Audacity. Although I am  interested, as a musicologist,  in contemporary composers, I have never understood why so many of them go for a music concrete. However, now I do think for them composers, creatig music concrete, based on their own musical grammer, is very fun activity.

However, if its acceptable for the audience is another problem. In fact, I think music concrete is interesting when people can understand the pattern and underlying concepts that composers have in mind. Of cause, it is not interesting enouh if its too easy to understand; the balance is the key.

I found it interesting that composers are trying to be away from formality in a traditional sense and going for more and more complex grammers. To me, it seems, in today's world with higher speed of daily life that what it was in, like a century ago, people want clearer and easier development of the piece so that they can get to understand and enjoy the piece soon after they begin listening to.

May be it is the trend for collaborative performance of the arts and technology that will help the audience share the complexed texture of contemporary music through both visual and audio information used in the live venue. That way, composers can keep seeking for the musical experiment of their interest at the same time as keeping atracting the audience.