[ANPPOM-Lista] a matter of taste (on elliott carter's music)

[Guilherme Bertissolo]

Muito interessante, Palombini,
Eu concordo com quase tudo no texto e reforço que o gosto é uma
construção social, cultural e política. O que aconteceria se
colocássemos uma peça de Carter na abertura da novela das 8?
Abraços,
Guilherme

2012/11/8 Carlos Palombini <cpalombini em gmail.com>:
> A Matter of Taste
>
> By Isaac Schankler on November 7, 2012No Comment
>
> http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/a-matter-of-taste/
>
> After the news of Elliott Carter’s passing earlier this week, I was quite
> moved by the outpouring of tributes to the composer that I encountered
> through social media. Obviously my window to the world through social media
> is skewed toward new music nerds, but even so, I have to admit I was
> slightly surprised at the extent of the outpouring. Among many of my new
> music friends, Carter was a figure who was more begrudgingly admired than
> universally adored, though this seemed to be changing in recent years. It
> says something about Carter’s musical imagination that even those who
> professed to dislike his work had a favorite piece by him.
>
> It also got me thinking about the limits of what we can do as composers to
> advocate for our own music. When our music is poorly or (worse)
> indifferently received, we may perceive it as a failure of presentation,
> contextualization, education, or marketing. The audience just didn’t have
> the right frame of reference. Or, maybe we think the problem is the music
> itself. Maybe it was too intricate, too subtle, too esoteric. Maybe it was
> flawed, or just plain bad.
>
> Most of the discussion around what to do about the state of new music today
> seems to vacillate between these two proposals. Change the music, or change
> the stuff around the music. I should say that I’m an advocate of both of
> these plans in certain situations. But I also wonder if there is a natural
> limit to what these changes are capable of. Maybe it doesn’t come down to
> intelligence or education. Maybe it comes down to aesthetics, or to put it
> more bluntly, maybe it’s a matter of taste.
>
> For example, lots of people like spicy food, including me. But I wouldn’t
> call someone misinformed for not liking spicy food, and just because that
> person dislikes a particular spicy dish, doesn’t mean that it’s not
> well-made. Dissonance in music is similar–some like it mild, others want a
> jar of hot sauce on hand at all times. Maybe this seems obvious, but the
> difference is that dissonance still offends people in ways that spicy food
> doesn’t. No one insists that chefs should stop making spicy food, or that
> spicy food has ruined gourmet cuisine forever.
>
> The idea that some music is an “acquired taste” is not exactly new, but I
> hope we can learn to avoid those annoyingly classist mistaken assumptions
> that often ride along with other acquired tastes. Not everyone will like
> Carter’s music, or mine, or yours, and that’s okay.
>
> --
> carlos palombini
> www.researcherid.com/rid/F-7345-2011
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