for most of the examples on that page, the first feeling i had was that it sounded like a naive/paint-by-numbers version of free jazz/modern classical/a tense p

for most of the examples on that page, the first feeling i had was that it sounded like a naive/paint-by-numbers version of free jazz/modern classical/a tense passage in a movie score. i thought the last clip was actually enjoyable, the busy clattering noisy one with the effects and the variety of instrument sounds. there's plenty of weird electronic music i listen to that's in that ballpark at times. these clips would all make fine sample fodder. i appreciate the attempted disclaimer at the end ('That is, "good" to typical Western listeners'). but i think a lot of typical western listeners don't realize how much things like texture (timbre, whatever) and other sorts of things not easily captured by western classical music notation matter to them. for instance, a lot of what makes old jazz sound like old jazz is that great warm scratchy sound that the recording technology of the time necessarily imprinted on the original recordings. likewise, if you scored autechre or aphex twin and got an orchestra to play it, it might sound interesting or enjoyable, but it wouldn't sound anything like autechre or aphex twin. and of course, the intonation and cadence and syllable stretching of well delivered rap vocals or well executed vocal sample chopping is nothing if not musical, but those things aren't easily transcribed by the notation in question here either. but those are all things regularly enjoyed by a wide swath of western listeners. so i think the disclaimer should be more like 'That is, "good" to the Western classical music establishment.'