CoL49 (3) Music of the future [PC 34, PF 48]

[Robin Landseadel]

Rich:
> Stockhausen--another example of an alternative way of
> communication--can't think of a better example of a representative of
> the WASTE symbolism than him in music

I cannot think of a more prescient incident in CoL49. The time when  
"The Crying of Lot 49" was published was in the moment when the push  
against LSD was first underway. Or maybe it really was a plot to push  
Acid on the public even harder—bet you anything that will be a biggie  
in IV. . .

In any case, CoL49 came out in 1966 and the effect of Stochausen on  
popular music really came to a boil in 1966. His influence has been  
and continues to be enormous. Stockhausen was all the rage at Acid's  
considerable peak, at least among those musicians that by grabbing the  
means of production engaged in a public contest to see who could cook  
up the weirdest sounding commercially viable records, all the while  
pushing the outer edges of electronic strangeness and the shock of the  
new. As we all know, the winners of that contest were the Beatles.

But compared to that contest of the very strange, the early Pioneers  
of electronic music went one up on Pink Floyd, the Beatles, the Byrds,  
being more like Captain Beefheart

http://tinyurl.com/pa2q8y

and creating the flat-out strangest stuff they could come up with,  
without consideration of public acceptance. Stockhausen's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfeWp2y1Lk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNt6a5xFOnE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0aeagbZBRs

contemporaries include John Cage,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6h1A6TEIE

the Fluxus Movement,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE0Ckn0V41I

& Iannis Xenakis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTlKINcSTBE

Many of their concepts got incorporated into popular music. The most  
extreme example of this sort of crossover into pop has to be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDRdMSTAnAg

[the most obvious example of disinformation concerning this cultural  
artifact has to be]:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG0wksBzKSc

No-one is THAT popular anymore [not even Jesus], but we still have  
many varieties of truly weird sounds finding their way to the  
marketplace. This video is contraindicated for those taking mao  
reuptake inhibitors It's NSFA/A—Not Safe For Anyone/Anywhere:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Az_7U0-cK0