Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do and all the things that evolved out of word processing – 'Oh let's put that sentence there let's get rid of this' – have become commonplace in films and music too.
Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting existing as material in space not immaterial in time.
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For instance I'm always fascinated to see whether given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
