surely a chord or bunch of notes is either dissonance or it isn't? At what point do two notes become dissonant with eachother? Or does it differ from person to person?
that Derek Bailey guy, he looked as if he had planned out this de-tuned opus for the first few minutes... but if you couldn't see him playing you'd just assume it was a novice messing around blissfully unaware of how awful he sounded... and i'm sure he's making a big point about what we consider music and how great dissonance is, but that just doesn't appeal to me, it's all been done to death and i couldn't sit there with a straight face.
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