Heuristic Music

Full disclosure: I submitted a piece to the CBC Evolution contest that is the subject of this post. I was pretty sure in advance that it was all wrong for the competition (and was correct in that assumption), so I was neither surprised nor disappointed when I didn’t make the cut. This isn’t a grudge post.

I had a chance to hear to some of the CBC Evolution concert this evening. I was teaching during most of it, so I could only listen between lessons, but it had me pondering a question that I’ve been asking for a while now: is “contemporary classical” music relevant anymore?

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Note to commercial hip hop:

Please stop sampling hit songs from the ’80s. You either sample something good and defile it with inane rhymes about crap that doesn’t matter, or you sample something that was lame in the first place and make us all listen to it for another 3 months. It ends badly either way.

You don’t have to sample. You could produce your own music, or if you lack the necessary talent and skills, you could grab something from any of the thousands of hip hop sample libraries that were designed for no-talent, no-skills fools just like you.

Whatever path you choose, just stop sampling. And stop sucking.

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