Can high art survive in today’s classical music business?
PARASITISM & STAGNATION IN CONTEMPORARY ACADEMIC MUSIC
Thanks to widespread access to the Internet, we can see how many mediocre people are making art.
Unoriginality, formulaic thinking, imitating the same images. Instead of doing quality work for the benefit of society, where they fit — like a fish in water — people who belong in factories come into the arts and start stamping out their mass-produced garbage.
And then equally useless musicologists dig through that trash to spew their clichéd nonsense about the “creativity“ of people as talentless as themselves.
And this isn’t about pop culture — which, at least, is intended to be accessible to everyone — this is happening in contemporary academic music, where creative stagnation hides behind complex terminology and institutional prestige.
Well-known ensembles, whose true place is playing gigs in bars for hire to make money, adjust to the demands of the public. Composers, in order to be performed, adjust to the demands of these ensembles. Despite relatively small sums compared
Not only do factories pollute the planet by producing unnecessary things, but the “creators”-conveyors, capable of stamping only boring plastic crap, have sucked on academic art, and instead of using contraceptives and finishing their work “in a desk drawer,” they pollute the World Wide Web with junk, bringing disgrace to academic music while performing under its cover.
High art is an elitist field where the basic requirement for the author is exceptional intellect, along with the ultimate originality of every piece. The essence of this endeavor lies in creating a unique work of art, as rare as a diamond — independent and uncompromising, opening new dimensions of perception — rather than stamping out as many copies as possible in the style of Lachenmann, Romitelli, etc., useless and unnecessary.
High art is a place for passionate and contradictory freethinkers who challenge all conventions.
Premature compositions, intellectual miscarriages of mediocre minds, with which “creators”-conveyors seek to flood the academic domain are a hindrance to the qualitative development of our species.