Interzone - May 17, 2005: Avant-Garde II

[Cozy]

Hellllooooo,


This week's theme involves the exploration of music commonly referred to as "avant-garde". Often used to describe art that is cutting-edge and counter-cultural, in our community the term has become fairly nebulous over the years, and possibly with good reason. This program will focus on the continuum (the gray space) of music we refer to as avant-garde.

Avant-garde is often used to describe music of a fairly eclectic nature, delving into areas that are fairly opposite of what the average person commonly associates with music. Dark melodies, angular progressions, dissonance, atonal sounds, free-form playing, and a disregard for musical structure are all elements that have been used to describe avant-garde artists. But this by no means exclusively defines avant-garde.

On these Interzone shows, we will focus on the “styles” associated with music we label as avant-garde. While terms such as avant-jazz, avant-fusion, avant-prog, RIO, etc may or may not be ideal to describe the music, they do give the listener some idea of what to expect.

I hope you enjoy.


- Cozy


PS: Playlist to come....