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I think some of this has to do with the people making experimental music. All the noise artists I know would be pretty averse to the idea of government grants t

• squarefoot 3y ago
  > All the noise artists I know would be pretty averse to the idea of government grants to work on their music, it's just against their whole ethos. I'm sure their government isn't buying their music but simply letting them put something on the table while they spend their life making music. I would totally love the same applied to other forms of art, except of course those that already have a market.
• AlecSchueler 3y ago
  I get you, though I do think of the noise scene as having a somewhat separate lineage to the more academically focused dialectic of the WDR and places like IRCAM which still operates. I can see both sides of the argument about publicly funding music but for me the big differentiator is that something which is publicly funded will inevitably be publicly debated, and I think that critical attention can be very important in creating cohesive schools of thought in art that can have enough appeal to make a difference.