hey all --

(hope you don't mind, jason, but I thought this might be of interest
to the gang....)

Jason Young writes a response to my article in the current issue of
Communique about postmodernism.

the article is at:
<http://www.communiquejournal.org>

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barry
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I just finished rereading your postmodernism essay on Communique and
I have to say it's one of the most interesting and thought-provoking
things I've read in a while. It leaves me wondering if postmodernism
isn't (for most people) a lazy alternative to coming up with
something new. What happens to art and thought when postmodernism
gets old? Will we then have a post-post modernism and pile irony on
top of irony until none of us is sure who is serious? Or will there
be a backlash and the creation of something truly new (the first in
a generation?) and not just tired rehashes of what has come before.
While I believe it takes talent to create truly artful music in this
era of CDROM breakbeats, samplers, and one-finger riffs, I feel the
vast majority of stuff out there is created too easily and with too
little thought. I believe we would all benefit (not to be a luddite)
if, for a while, everyone went back to more "traditional" ways of
making art - the pen and paper of Bach and Picasso- and got away from
all of this wonderful technology that, in my opinion, has become a
crutch for too many. The technology that frees the masses is a
double-edged sword.

P.S. Interesting thought - isn't what you and I do (Sing) the epitome
of postmodern?