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ie it’s not just the old using popular music as a source for your thoroughly still-classical music thing, it’s also a continuation of 70s art rock.

Also, back in November during my monthly Composer Salon, I discussed ‘alt-classical’ or my more inclusive term for the zeitgeist, ‘mixed music’ (http://numinousmusic.blogspot.com/2009/11/mixed-music-stylistic-freedoms-in.html), as well as during a response to a discussion on Greg Sandow’s blog (http://numinousmusic.blogspot.com/2009/11/mixed-music-vs-alt-classical.html), so I won’t repeat all of my thoughts here.

But I will say that, I think the bigger trend now is how composers are now more interested in connecting with their listeners, by including them and caring whether they are engaged with the music. and naturally giving them an ‘in’ by incorporating sounds, structures, instruments that they are more familiar with from pop/rock music is one way to create that connection, which is wonderful. And sure for some people there is a certain amount of PR in all of this (nothing wrong with that). There is also a fair amount of showing one’s hipsterness by declaring one’s love of indie rock, with a ‘hey, look at how meta and cool I am, by letting that rock influence come through my classical lens.’ And while I believe that composers in school and professionally are usually free to include any influences from the popular side of things in their work, I think there is still only a certain kind of indie pop/rock music that is deemed the ‘right kind’ to incorporate into one’s music. I wonder what would happen if some alt-classical type wrote a piece based on the music of Justin Beiber or Ke$ha? would they have to give up their ‘cool kid’ card? Maybe not, I guess, if it sounded great but I’m not so sure.

Will this movement create something lasting? I think Dennis DeSantis’s comment about the only thing that matters is “what the music sounds like” is a good place to start. I do believe there are many mixed music works that will be long remembered although while much of the music is interesting to listen to (and much I really like), I often question does the music always really move or stir me on a visceral level? Do I really resonant with it? does it reach for something beyond just interesting? Do I LOVE it?

At an earlier stage, when I was just starting to study composition, it did make sense for me to immerse myself in the techniques of modernism to the exclusion of more familiar influences that I had grown up with- for me it was about learning new modes of expression. By the end of my time as a student, however, it made more sense to integrate my various other influences- hip-hop, electronica, etc., to create more of a personal hybrid (my own voice). I wouldn’t write the music I do now though, if I hadn’t been on this whole journey.

I’ve heard this phrase thrown around for years, and the only consistent thing I can figure out is that the people who use it when referring to their own music are the same people who like to remind you that they write their music at a desk instead of at an instrument.

The only thing that’s ever mattered about music – ever – is what it sounds like.