THIS MONTH's QUOTATION
"IEM [Improvised Experimental Music] is not a commercially or formally a 'functional' area of music making, and therefore its participants locate its value for them by appealing either to art status (usually shown through the medium of performance) or to the seemingly more modest area of communal aesthetic activity"
From: Chase, Stephen Timothy: Improvised Experimental Music and the Construction of a Collaborative Aesthetic. PhD, Dep.of Music, University of Sheffield, 2006, p.81f. Read my summary here: http://www20.brinkster.com/improarchive/legno1uk_add.htm - please scrool down to the book list and find (g3)/Chase...
