[sdiy] RE: music nerds

[Eric]

>The other students just didn't CARE also. Synths were not
>"music" as for as they were concerned. They asked to have
>the test thrown out....and that they were a bunch of FVCKING
>CRYBABIES because if I could get 100% (I was a "C" student) then the
>"A" students should have had NO TROUBLE doing so.
>Professor agreed !

Heh heh heh. Good.

---by the way, I've observed that "music-is-my-bag" people or "music nerds", 
who make up the vast majority of music majors, have NO interest in 
any music less than 50 years old, except for very conservative 
Broadway-type musicals---Andrew Lloyd Webber or the like. Jazz is OK as long
as you don't talk about "freaks" like Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk,
John Coltrane etc.

And they REALLY hate electronics or 20th-century avant-garde. Even serialism
or Stravinsky seems to be off limits. God help you if you bring up microtonal 
or untempered scales.....even just intonation is an area of ugly dispute.

(they also hate rock-n-roll, principally because
rock is mostly about sex, which music nerds don't
seem to get enough of....)

Eric Barbour
METASONIX