J'accuse aside, and while (later) minimalism and experimental stuff are favourite genres of mine (incl. Derbyshire, Carlos, Velvet Underground, and TG), and I d

J'accuse aside, and while (later) minimalism and experimental stuff are favourite genres of mine (incl. Derbyshire, Carlos, Velvet Underground, and TG), and I do like some artists who happen to be women, I thought musique concrète was more an artifact of criticism and not the expression of musical competence and technique. Cruelty to me is the cynicism of having open minded and generous audiences sit through self indulgent performance art and then telling them it's redemption for their anxiety about being provincial and unsophisticated. Always struck me as a mean trick. However, maybe it's my bias, as if modern power electornics and noise musicians owed me a debt, I would probably write it off.