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Aitch
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« on: 12:36:28, 01-02-2008 »
Came across this on another board:

http://www.prsfoundation.co.uk/newmusicaward/index.htm

I suspect some of it will turn on on R3 at some point, but I'm not convinced that all of it counts as music.

Or am I being fogeyish?


(edited for missing words!)
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« Reply #1 on: 12:50:08, 01-02-2008 »
Quote from: Aitch on 12:36:28, 01-02-2008
I'm not convinced that all of it counts as music.
I wouldn't say that, but it does seem that, despite the fact that this is a "new music award", musical innovation as such (despite the effusive blurb) seems to be fairly low in the priorities of the artists concerned, as opposed to putting music in funny places etc. The trouble is that none of these works actually exist yet, and they were chosen on the basis of project-concept submissions, so that those which could come accompanied by thousands of words of sensationalist/pseudointellectual hype were probebly more likely to succeed than someone saying "er, listen to this music, if you find it interesting maybe you could give me/us an opportunity to make more of it". To me the priorities of this Award are completely cock-eyed and the results unlikely to be very enlightening. This is presumably the New Labour New Renaissance getting into gear.
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« Reply #2 on: 12:54:39, 01-02-2008 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 12:50:08, 01-02-2008
it does seem that, despite the fact that this is a "new music award", musical innovation as such (despite the effusive blurb) seems to be fairly low in the priorities of the artists concerned, as opposed to putting music in funny places etc.
We're back on the measurable vs. less easily measurable criteria, as in the 'outreach' discussion, aren't we? This problem of evaluation (evaluating what, as well as how) does seem to come up always in relation to funding.

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The trouble is that none of these works actually exist yet, and they were chosen on the basis of project-concept submissions, so that those which could come accompanied by thousands of words of sensationalist/pseudointellectual hype were probebly more likely to succeed
They'll be quoting Mille Plateaux next!
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« Reply #3 on: 12:59:06, 01-02-2008 »
I loathe the apparent priorities of this award, for all Richard's reasons, especially when they're coupled with the fact that it drains so much of what funds are left in PRS/PRSF for 'new music'.

(Although I'm glad for him that a friend of mine is on that shortlist.)
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« Reply #4 on: 13:00:53, 01-02-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 12:54:39, 01-02-2008
We're back on the measurable vs. less easily measurable criteria, as in the 'outreach' discussion, aren't we? This problem of evaluation (evaluating what, as well as how) does seem to come up always in relation to funding.
Indeed. And before anyone jumps in with an assertion that this is a "thoroughly British" problem, my observations of the way the Berliner Senat chose projects for funding during my time in that city show that the approach is basically the same (and indeed the artistic results were also often quite similarly vacuous, ooops, there I go prejudging what's going to come out of the PRS competition).

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They'll be quoting Mille Plateaux next!
I'm sure some of them already have.
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« Reply #5 on: 13:17:35, 01-02-2008 »
This phrase in particular catches the eye:

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...to create a new score, hand cut on cardboard books, to be performed by this organ...

These organs are terribly fussy about the parts they'll read these days, aren't they? Cheesy
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