Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all.
Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
As for minimalism, I don't care, don't care, don't care to repeat myself, repeat myself.
I think 'Tron' is a good example of minimalism.
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.
Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.