Path: utzoo!hoptoad!uunet!husc6!ncsuvx!mcnc!rutgers!princeton!phoenix!tom From: tom@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Thomas C Hajdu) Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk Subject: Re: Alternative Audio Stimulation (fot the cyberpunk) Keywords: Music? Who needs Music?? Message-ID: <1694@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 10 Feb 88 02:20:00 GMT References: <7205@ncoast.UUCP> Reply-To: tom@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Thomas C Hajdu) Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 14 In article <1652@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> tom@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Thomas C Hajdu) writes: > In article <3a16fe27.b263@hi-csc.UUCP> giebelhaus@hi-csc.UUCP (Timothy R. Giebelhaus) writes: > >In article <1630@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> tom@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Thomas C Hajdu) writes: >> The REAL offense, however, was the reliance on >> music of the past for describing a culture of an imagined future. >I understand your point and while it does seem an ironic juxtoposition >there are some things that transcend time, true aesthetics for one. Explain what you mean by true aesthetics transcending time. As far as I know, no living experience transcends time. Neither Beethoven nor your blood-letting-type remedy for my headache.