Contemporary music is over, done, dead. What now?

From an essay by the French composer, Jean-Louis Agobet:

… It is not a question of abandoning the artistic ambition and the heritage of which we are the recipients, but of recognizing and accepting that today the ecosystem cannot and no longer wants to continue this adventure, what’s more, in this form. Of course a salvation exists, by retaining this artistic ambition cited above, this requirement of content. Even if it seems difficult to imagine today. To achieve this, we will have to change the container while preserving the exploration of the incredible and the desire for discovery. This model exists.

Let’s look at how haute cuisine emerged from the hushed and totally utopian space of the 1970s and 1980s. Elitist, terribly hermetic in its codes and vocabulary, the cuisine of the happy few has become incredibly open and popular without renouncing quality, creative demand and invention, but by abandoning the purity of the space in which it was deployed, by completely rethinking the discourse and the codes which accompanied it and by embracing, this is the essential, a real economic, social and referential diversity…

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