John Cages disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape; David Grubbs argues that; following Cage; new genres in experimental and avant-garde music in the 1960s were particularly ill suited to be represented in the form of a recording. These activities include indeterminate music; long-duration minimalism; text scores; happenings; live electronic music; free jazz; and free improvisation. How could these proudly evanescent performance practices have been adequately represented on an LP?In their day; few of these works circulated in recorded form. By contrast; contemporary listeners can encounter this music not only through a flood of LP and CD releases of archival recordings but also in even greater volume through Internet file sharing and online resources. Present-day listeners are coming to know that eras experimental music through the recorded artifacts of composers and musicians who largely disavowed recordings. In Records Ruin the Landscape; Grubbs surveys a musical landscape marked by altered listening practices.
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