Art is not only about consuming sensorial pleasure, but also about the pleasure of exploration. The main goal of music in not filling gaps between famous musicians and their styles. Since the '70ies, Anthony Braxton's legacy was related to some questions left open by the long-lasting wave of Free Jazz, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, many others, but also by the unstructured flows achieved by John Cage, La Monte Young... In some way, making music can also be about giving shape to diversity and independence from the common rules. Repetitive rhythm, pentatonic scales, melody and well executed notes can't be accepted as the only possible goal for a musician. In the late '90ies, I had the chance to listen to a recording of an Anthony Braxton's solo, together with Franco Donatoni and compare it to his own composition "Clair" for Clarinet. Donatoni admitted that, of course, there were many similarities in the behavior of both instruments, but he also stated that it is important, in contemporary music, to understand the procedures undertaken by the composers, eventually producing similar shapes but sometimes leading in opposite thematic directions. Isn't complexity of human life a strong reason to set up dissonant experiences, far from the listener's expectations?
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Does this fill in a gap in today's music? Coltrane fervor and Berio writing..
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